The Hermit (Solitude)
A woman, bearing a flame in her hand, emerges from the darkness. Originally based upon the Tarot card "The Hermit", this image is about bearing the light of truth, your personal truth. Like Hecate leading the way through the caverns of the underworld for Persephone, this figure lights the darkness as she goes. The woman has returned from a journey into the "underworld" passages of her solitary and evolutionary journey to wisdom. Her journey may have been precipitated by a quest for understanding, an illness, loss, or change of fortune, an emotional crisis or perhaps a profound loss of faith. Whatever the catalyst, her initiatory journey demanded the solitude necessary to "know thyself".
She emerges with the kindled flame of illumination that has led her back into the world. The final phase of that journey is to become a "light-bearer" - to share, offering what you have learned to others on the path. If this image is speaking to you, you have learned more than you probably realize, and/or healed yourself in some important way. Now you've come back to tell the tale. Whether you heal with your hands, words, craft or art, or by your wise presence in the world, you have much to do now. Hold that light before you wherever you go.
She emerges with the kindled flame of illumination that has led her back into the world. The final phase of that journey is to become a "light-bearer" - to share, offering what you have learned to others on the path. If this image is speaking to you, you have learned more than you probably realize, and/or healed yourself in some important way. Now you've come back to tell the tale. Whether you heal with your hands, words, craft or art, or by your wise presence in the world, you have much to do now. Hold that light before you wherever you go.
Reversed: You may have become be too withdrawn from the world, too used to your isolation. The card may be reminding you to connect now with others - you are too alone, and too much isolation can mean an end to learning, and simply a fearful retreat from life. Share and participate - that's the emergence you are finally in need of.
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