The Hermit

So that when, as an introvert or an empath, when you're doing a reading for yourself and a card comes up, that there might be one that really resonates with you as an introvert.

Like for me, for example, like the High Priestess and the Moon and the Hermit, like those are cards I could live in.

Their energy, that lunar energy just fits with me.

And that might be letting you know as an introvert, hey, it's a good day to really embrace that side of yourself, say no to that social occasion or unapologetically take some hermit time.

Pretty awesome.

Work for the Aquarius, the Hermit.

I really actually really like him in a work situation because he's a guide, right? He shows up as a leader, a guide, a supervisor.

So this is you, you know, maybe getting some like more leadership roles or guiding others.

It was sometimes really hard to marry all of those together.

But the most important person, if I may share, is the Hermit chapter.

And I've long really had an issue that There's an old man in tarot, but no old woman.

And I looked long and hard to find an archetype of a wise woman who is not like a scary hag crone figure or just a grandmother, right? So really trying to get out of these tropes of...

I mean, I didn't get it enough to like feel comfortable reading off book until I went through my own process.

But you will see echoes of your voice in my next book, specifically The Chew of Swords and The Hermit.

You will see echoes there.

That's amazing.

Holy crap.

You know, I was shitting myself the entire time.

And then Rachel turns to me and she's like, you know, the hermit is just a guy on a hill if he doesn't come down.

And I went, what? Genius.

I pulled not one, not two, but actually four, it looks like, major Arcana cards.

So the first cards that came out immediately were the Hermit and the High Priestess, which are both very, very internal cards.

They are both reversed.

They suggest together that there is something that we have not yet seen that we need to go within in order to examine.

The Hermit is...

this point in the story of the tarot where we are kind of shaken and we must like away solo into the woods in order for a moment of introspection in which something magical happens, something otherworldly and inexplicable happens, either positive or negative, that gives us some sort of clarity.

And so when I see the hermit inverted, I usually think, ah, yes, you are avoiding going into the or you don't want to examine the interior, or we simply just like haven't done it yet.

But you know what I'm going to say.

And the Hermit, Virgo.

And the screen goes dark.

And the screen goes dark.

Okay.

The Hermit.

Heart of Virgo.

Interesting, because the way I'm laying them out, Hermit and the Lovers are connected.

And they both share Mercury.

Mercury is going into retrograde.

Well, let me put it a different way.

Because I feel like what Temperance is saying, let's just say divine, is what you have, like, let's say you've been single for a while.

9.

The Hermit, as he is termed in common parlance, stands next on the list.

He is also the capuchin, and in more philosophical language, the sage.

He is said to be in search of that truth which is located far off in the sequence, and of justice which has preceded him on the way.