The Hermit
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A tarot card. Position 9 in the Major Arcana.
| The Fool, The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, The Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, The World. | |
| Wands | Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King. |
| Cups | Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King. |
| Swords | Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King. |
| Pentacles | Ace 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King. |
| Aces, Twos, Threes, Fours, Fives, Sixes, Sevens, Eights, Nines, Tens, Pages, Knights, Queens, Kings | |
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Description
Rider Waite Deck
(from the Pictorial key to Tarot by E. A. Waite)
The variation from the conventional models in this card is only that the lamp is not enveloped partially in the mantle of its bearer, who blends the idea of the Ancient of Days with the Light of the World It is a star which shines in the lantern. I have said that this is a card of attainment, and to extend this conception the figure is seen holding up his beacon on an eminence. Therefore the Hermit is not, as Court de Gebelin explained, a wise man in search of truth and justice; nor is he, as a later explanation proposes, an especial example of experience. His beacon intimates that "where I am, you also may be."
It is further a card which is understood quite incorrectly when it is connected with the idea of occult isolation, as the protection of personal magnetism against admixture. This is one of the frivolous renderings which we owe to Éliphas Lévi. It has been adopted by the French Order of Martinism and some of us have heard a great deal of the Silent and Unknown Philosophy enveloped by his mantle from the knowledge of the profane. In true Martinism, the significance of the term Philosophe inconnu was of another order. It did not refer to the intended concealment of the Instituted Mysteries, much less of their substitutes, but--like the card itself--to the truth that the Divine Mysteries secure their own protection from those who are unprepared.
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Meanings
- Guidance, wisdom, teaching
- response, the union of opposites, touch.
- Submit to subjective altruism and accept the help and authority of the specialist
- a true spiritual leader; being guided by such a person
- voluntary retreat from the mundane world, usually for the sake of spirituality (or other truly wise reasons)
Reversed Meaning
- lonelieness
- retreat from the mundane world (or matters at hand) for the wrong reasons, at the wrong time, or involuntariely
Correspondences
- Links Chesed to Tiphareth as path number 20 of the Tree of Life
- Colour yellow-green
- Virgo in the zodiac
- The direction North-below (from the Sepher Yetzirah)
- Yetziratic Intelligence - the intelligence of Will
- Musical note F (Paul Case)
- Hebrew letter HEBREW:Yod meaning Hand and also the number 10
- Organic Time - Paleolithic Culture The migration of the caveman into the first cultural groups. African homo sapiens separated and travelled to cover each continent of the Earth, setting up new ways of conquering each new environment. From the cavemen we have the first laws, first art, first drives.
