The Hermit Tarot Year Card

A year of The Hermit

The Hermit holds a year of withdrawal in the good sense: time alone, fewer voices, a question pursued to its end. It often follows a busy stretch and comes before a new start. Many people find it a year of completion, finishing a chapter before the wheel turns.

What the year asks

It asks you to make room for solitude and to trust your own lamp over the crowd's. The shadow is isolation: retreating from people who could help, or staying in the cave after the work is done.

Sitting with it

Protect regular time alone. Decide which questions you want to carry through the year, and which old chapter you are closing.

Questions for the year

• What do I need to hear that only quiet will tell me?
• Which chapter of my life is asking to be finished?
• Who do I keep close even while I step back?

Who has The Hermit as a year card

The card itself

Stepping back far enough to hear yourself again.

If it is also your birth card

The Hermit is also a birth card for some people. In the year it comes round as your year card, the theme you were born with is the one the year brings up.

Birth cards that include The Hermit

• The Hermit · 9
• The Moon and The Hermit · 18 · 9

Every year card

• The Magician · 1
• The High Priestess · 2
• The Empress · 3
• The Emperor · 4
• The Hierophant · 5
• The Lovers · 6
• The Chariot · 7
• Strength · 8
• The Hermit · 9
• Wheel of Fortune · 10
• Justice · 11
• The Hanged Man · 12
• Death · 13
• Temperance · 14
• The Devil · 15
• The Tower · 16
• The Star · 17
• The Moon · 18
• The Sun · 19
• Judgement · 20
• The World · 21
• The Fool · 22

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