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| #9, The Hermit (RWCS Deck) solitude, the inner journey, guidance |
Yesterday morning we had one doozy of a Void of Course and it left lots of us feeling ungrounded and anxious. Voids, of VoCs occur when the Moon is about to change houses and there are no more planets in the Moon’s present home to guide her on her way. Lady Moon is left to drift without a celestial body to help ground and stabilize her energy. (see blog: "A Void Is A Void, of Course of Course" or "Slipping Into The Moon's, Void of Course") Left to her own devices, Lady Moon drifts aimlessly and turns inward much like her tarot card, # 2, The High Priestess.
There are times in our own lives when we likewise feel uncertain and turn inward. We sit in our metaphoric towers using our intuition to guide us through the darkness as we reflect on our lives. Sometimes the journey gets a little edgy, but nothing that can’t be handled with a bar of really good chocolate and our favorite book. However, there are times when our fears and anxieties gain the upper hand and a tower feels too exposed. That’s when we head straight for a cave – the deeper, the darker, the better. This is the territory of tarot’s #9, The Hermit.
Where the High Priestess uses introspection coupled with delicate, high-mindedness, The Hermit, forges a path through the discomfort and travails that come from following one’s destiny. His path is very rough at times because he joins the fray in the real world. As a result The Hermit, who is further along the journey of the soul, needs a deeper retreat from the world in order to reaffirm his connection to Spirit. The risks The Hermit takes in life and the demands he places upon himself are far more rigorous than those of the High Priestess. Where she represents reflected light and a passive nature, he represents true illumination – the kind you carry with you to light your way in a not always serene world.
In the RWCS depiction of The Hermit, we see Diogenes, the Greek philosopher who, taking a vow of poverty, lived in a large clay urn in Athens’ marketplace. (Close to shopping, reasonable rent) He carried a lamp through the streets looking for an honest man. #9, The Hermit, asks us to retreat into ourselves so that we can honestly assess what we’ve learned along life’s journey and plan for where we go once we leave the sanctuary of our cave. He also asks us to shine the lamp of enlightenment on ourselves; to put our lives in perspective. That’s a scary thought, because we are our own toughest critics. However, the cave of The Hermit gives us time to think and heal, to make adjustments to our life path as we find necessary. Once we reemerge into the sunlight, our lantern is held firmly in our hand and we are ready for the next step in our journey.
LADY ORACLE
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