The Hermit comes in as the ninth of Major Arcana. Its position denotes a completed circle of understanding, progress and process of events, points - stations on our journey to accomplishment.
How does The Hermit speak if it could convey what is meant to be a help?
A hooded lone figure, carrying a lantern that often symbolises knowledge as well as its enlightened sister - wisdom. How far we can go into the dark night of a profound crisis. Is it a measure of how much light we can shed into understanding and acknowledging our past. What is to be done here? Are we done here?
The card clearly shows the ambivalence and dualism of action and reception. Receptive knowledge that contains a static chill of wisdom - something which is usually to be achieved through loneliness and analysis we can do on our own solely.
The concentrated hump of past experiences can be quite a burden if you consider a pictorial symbolism of the card. But without this weight we cannot assess and judge the importance of those experiences that shape us.
The Hermit invites us not necessarily to dwell on the past and add up the the already heavy burden of thoughts and recollections - it's a predicament that calls us to wait, ponder on, stop in continuity that lasts and extends itself into our future by a plan of the Unknown. He dwells in a secret space where everything took a break to prepare us for a new energy.
