Element: Earth
Numerology: 9 – Reflection, solitude, wisdom, knowledge.
Timing: Virgo season.
Message: Step back and seek your inner light. Time alone brings clarity, truth, and guidance from within.
Keywords: Introspection, soul-searching, inner guidance, retreat, turning inward, inner wisdom, knowledge, time away, commit, personal journey, letting go, connect, spiritual clarity, teacher, mentor, guide, calling, sharing wisdom, learning.
The Hermit shows that you’re taking a break from everyday life to take in your energy and attention to find the answers you’re searching for, deep within your soul. Your deepest sense of truth and knowledge is within you. You’re going on a journey of self-discovery, led only by your inner wisdom and guiding light.
The Hermit invites you to retreat into your private world and experience a deep sense of seclusion and introspection. Find your light, make it shine on your soul, and create your unique path. Take one step at a time from there.
When you’re at a point in your life and consider a new direction, the Hermit often appears. You can begin to re-evaluate your personal goals and change your overall course through meditation, contemplation, and self-examination.
Physical and spiritual retreat from everyday life. Take time away from your daily routines and obligations and make a commitment to going on a personal journey. Let go of everything that controls you and connect with yourself on the inside – gain spiritual clarity
You could be a mentor or teacher to someone or you could be the one who needs to learn something.
Sharing your own knowledge with others. No longer innocent and evolved into someone through experiences of the past. No longer looking behind or needing to scan the future – wisdom comes from being present.
Ageless wisdom representing those who are looking for enlightenment. You may feel isolated but you won’t turn your back on those who need it. The Hermit says “I can take you on the journey but I can’t carry you.”
A master is a teacher- helping other while also mastering his own progress maintaining one step ahead at all times You can show them the way but you can’t make the journey for them.
You are in the process of learning detachment. Once you begin to make this journey, the relationships and situations which no longer serve you will begin to melt away. It is a natural part of the spiritual evolutionary process.
Symbolism:
- Gray cloak- looking within, protecting the truth, devotion, respect.
- Lamp- wisdom, truth, lights the way.
- Yellow light- wisdom.
- Star- seal of Solomon, power to command, speak with animals, 6 points representing 6th sign Virgo.
- Gray sky- moment before creation, in between light/dark, let there be light.
- White snow- innocence, blank page, clean slate, isolation.
- Staff- self- support, mastery, familiarity, completed journey and the journey ahead.
- White beard- maturity and wisdom.
