
20.
The Hermit
- Ice Isn't Always Cold -


The Hermit Tarot Card Meaning

The Themes
Isolation, Self Discovery, Cultivating Warmth Towards the Self, Practicing Presence, Monastic Experiences, Spiritual Study
The Journey
This is a time to steal yourself away from the world - to come to appreciation of your own presence, to go within to find answers or healing, to put your life on ice for a while and deliberately
focus on YOU.
Just because we go away for a while on a soul sojourn, putting our life on ice, doesn't mean it's cold. The warmth from our inner light grows, as we find true warmth for ourselves. Self compassion and gratitude emerge. Slowly, in our own presence, new understanding comes into awareness. Allowing ourselves to bask in our own energy, rather than being overwhelmed by other energies, brings a kind of clarity to who and what we really are. A true sense of peace and renewal can happen here, it's not just
about being alone.
Spirit brings us into a hermit phase to teach us to get to know ourselves again. The opportunity to sit in our own energy allows for an energetic system reset - space to breathe and get re-acquainted with the truth of ourselves. With all that consensus reality forces down our throats, it can be hard to know what is truly “us”, versus what is just a conditioned response that the world
demands of us!
If we’ve been forgetting ourselves for the sake of others or the world, if we’ve made ourselves intentionally smaller, if we’ve gotten energetically murky by eratically dancing with energies that don’t serve us, if we’ve forgotten our paths - Spirit needs to adjust our hearts and minds to align with the journey again, and to align with our own enjoyment of simply being US! What a treasure that
reset can be!
Our inner light never goes out. Carry yours with you and let it show you the path, let it illuminate your mind and spirit, and let it heal you and bring forth a warmer, stronger version of you who
knows who they are and why they are here!
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The Mystery Deepens
✨Are you comfortable alone, in your own presence?
✨Do you experience feelings of warmth or self-compassion? How can you build self-compassion
in this season?
✨What will your time away teach you?
✨What authenticity can you discover in
your own company?
✨What possibilities will you allow to arise, while alone - not overwhelmed by the noisy
energy of others?