The Hermit happens to be my birth card and so I’m very familiar with it’s energy. This card speaks to us of someone who is able to reflect on how they themselves work, on what makes their own selves tick. This person is able to plumb the inner depths of self and come back up from that journey intact and the better for it. This is an extremely reflective person, to the point of being somewhat reclusive. The hermit needs this time alone to make those inner journeys of exploration undisturbed. These are generally times of healing for the hermit.
But for the hermit, there is so much more going on than just some reclusive inner reflection and healing. As the hermit learns about himself and what makes him tick. As he learns about his light side and his shadow side, he is learning about things and patterns that apply to much more than just him. He is learning that those things he sees in himself, are not JUST in himself, but also in similar forms in the people around him, in his environment, and in the universe. As the hermit learns more about himself, it doesn’t take long for him to recognize the other places that his lessons are good in, and he is well able to apply his knowledge gotten from inner reflection to the situations in the manifest world around him to bring about more of the outcomes that he desires. What the hermit learns in his reclusive self-reflection is valuable information to have. It puts him at a higher level than those who don’t take the time to do this.
Notice also the lantern that the hermit is holding. Even though he is still a recluse. He is still not coming out to play with the rest of the community near him, he still holds aloft a lantern. That lantern is not for him. The lessons he has learned give him plenty of light to see by. That lantern is for those near him. Those other seekers of truth that are approaching the place where the hermit is now. It’s a lantern of information to light the way for them to see the path, at least as far as the hermit himself has traveled on it.
Those lessons that the hermit has learned about himself, and by which transfer in application to those around him and to his environment, those lessons learned become the light for those who come after to guide themselves by.
Today I see us as the hermit. I believe that some of us are in different places on the journey than others of us. Some of us are just beginning to pull back and do some reflecting on ourselves and why we do what we do. Others of us have started to learn some of the hermits lessons about ourselves and are struggling with what to do with those lessons in a practical way. Still others of us have learned how those lessons apply to the people and the world around us and we now hold the lamp out for others to see by as they make their way on their own journey. No matter where we are in the hermit experience, this is a day for us to be especially aware of that. Especially thankful that we are able to have and learn from a hermit experience.
Where are you on the hermits road? Are you just starting to reflect on yourself? Have you learned a few lessons already? Do you continue to reflect while also holding out the light for others? What does this look like in your life?
Peace,
Amista
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