Major Arcana · IX

The Hermit Month

Earth

This month your card is the Hermit. Step back if you need to. The energy supports real quiet and the kind of reflection that doesn't happen when you're in the thick of things. The thing to watch: the Hermit month can make it easy to mistake the comfort of solitude for the completion of the work. Are you still listening, or have you started hiding? The difference matters. One of them produces something. The other just runs out the clock.

The card behind the month

Your month card is The Hermit, one of the twenty-two Majors. Here’s what it means at full length.

The Hermit card in Tarot represents solitude, reflection, and inner guidance. An old man in a gray cloak stands alone on a snowy mountaintop. He holds up a lantern with a six-pointed star inside and leans on a long staff. This card is about stepping away from other people for a while so you can think for yourself.

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