The Hermit knows the true home is an inward dwelling. In this space, no decorations or ornamentation are needed.
If you’ve drawn the Hermit, your quest is to create the safest space for your soul.
Material resources are of no use to the hermit. Their currency is time, meaning, and wisdom. To create the life you seek, you’re challenged with slowing down to listen. Your spirit has the answers.
The hermit’s lodgings are not created by material resources, but rather all that is authentically them. Your feelings, experiences, and heart are the architects of your soul and your path; it’s your task to give them cover. Through your care, illumination follows.
The Hermit is the distillation of light down to the simplest ember. What’s at your center? To create the life you want, you have to know your core.
The answers are within, but you might also benefit from the teachings of a wise sage, witch, yogi, wizard, or spiritual person. Reading the works of cosmic thinkers or exploring mysticism might help you see yourself and the larger wheel of life.
In time, you might share what you learn with the collective, although you will likely do this quietly and without fanfare. The Hermit leads with a reserved framework. You might write a book, create art, or lead a retreat in the woods; you serve humanity from a ruminative and secret place.
If drawn reversed or if you see this card as negative, you might look outside your spirit for the answers, struggle to make time for yourself, or take the Hermit to the extreme by closing yourself off from the world.
When lived well, the Hermit is the understanding that the world outside only begins from the one within.
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Tarot Spread
If you are drawn to the Hermit and want to dig deeper, get them outta your deck, make them your mascot, and draw some cards from the rest of the deck with this tarot spread I created!
