The Hermit
The Hermit represents withdrawal into solitude to seek self-knowledge and spiritual insight away from worldly distractions. In a quiet, desolate inner landscape you confront fundamental questions about identity, purpose, and direction. A small inner light guides the seeker; the journey is solitary but necessary for truthful self-discovery and restraint of ego and emotion. Reversed, the card warns of perfectionism, negativity, secrecy, misanthropy, and fear-driven isolation that obstruct growth.
Keywords
Keyword
Solitude
Description
The gloomy and stony terrain under the cloudy sky meets you. Prickly vines creep among the gray stones and the cold north wind howls in the canyons. Why is this person looking for shelter in this wild and desolate place? Looking around, you start to understand that there are no temptations here, no noise, none of the distractions of ordinary life. In this quiet place you begin to hear your thoughts and find out who you really are. Turn your gaze into yourself, look at yourself, without embellishment and other false impressions. Ask yourself — "Who am I?" "For what do I live?" "Where do I go?" The light of truth, like a lonely firefly in the dark, burns up brighter. You are lonely, but on this journey to your true nature you do not need fellow travelers.
Upright
Self-knowledge, spirituality, closure, loneliness, deceleration, rejection of ego, insight, restraint of emotions, training, travel
Reverse
Perfectionism, negativity, secrets, misanthropy, inactivity, expulsion, suspicion, arrogance, loss, fear of illness or isolation
Visual Description
A bearded man in a gray hooded robe sits among bright pink and orange leaves and clusters of dark berries. He looks down thoughtfully and extends one hand that holds a small glowing object; there is no staff visible. Behind him rise violet mountains beneath a star-speckled, muted sky with streaks of light. The scene feels quiet, inward, and solitary.
Golden Wheel tarot
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