You have a respect for accumulated knowledge that the people around you sometimes mistake for caution. It is not caution. You have simply noticed that most problems are not new, and that someone has usually already paid the price of finding out.
You are the one others come to for a second opinion, because you will give them the considered answer rather than the quick one. You take that seriously, maybe more than the situation always requires.
The Hierophant grows when he can tell the difference between a tradition that still holds and one that is only old. You are allowed to keep the first and put down the second.