The Hermit

The Hermit (Ⅸ)
Type	Major Arcana
Position	9 (Ⅸ)
Symbol
Letter	yodh י
Element
Color	Yellow-green
Direction	North-below
Astrology	[[astrological sign::Virgo]]
Note	F
Meanings
Upright
Reversed
	v; t; e;

The Hermit is a tarot card.

Description

Rider Waite deck

The Waite version of the card shows an old man carrying a staff in one hand and a lit lantern containing a six-pointed star in the other. In the background is a wasteland. Just beyond the wasteland is a mountain range.

Meanings

Guidance, wisdom, teaching

response, the union of opposites, touch.

Submit to subjective altruism and accept the help and authority of the specialist

Reversed Meaning

Fear, overly cautious, unwise acts.

Correspondences

Links Chesed to Tiphareth as path number 20 of the Tree of Life
Yetziratic Intelligence - the intelligence of Will
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.

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