09-The Hermit – Upright Mage Deck

Your Chosen Card – The Hermit Upright Mage Deck

When upright, the Hermit indicates a need to spend time far from the madding crowd. Now is a time to collect your thoughts and regroup your forces. A period of solitude and contemplation is in order. In this modern age of technology, someone quipped that meditation provides the answers you can’t find on Google. You have been through a lot, and the time has come to wait and watch. An attitude of patient circumspection will allow you to put matters in perspective and learn from your experience. You might consider reading Eckhardt Tolle’s book The Power of Now.

Keywords Upright: Introspection, meditation, spiritual retreat, careful attention, solitude, prudence, maturity, self-possession, the wisdom of experience, watchfulness, circumspection, discernment, perspective, patient pursuit of knowledge, quiet contemplation, spiritual illumination, philosophical insight, the search for meaning, the power of Now, replenishment of the soul.

Key IX: The Hermit
Myths/Archetypes: The Wise Old Man. The Sage. The Philosopher. Buddha. Jedi Master Yoda (whose name contains the Hebrew letter Yod).
Dates of Virgo: 23 August–23 September; 17 September–16 October (sidereal)
Astrology: Virgo, the Virgin (an Earth sign ruled by Mercury)
Numerology: 9 (The Hermit) = 1 + 8 (The Moon)

Rider Waite: Prudence, circumspection; also and especially treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption; (R) concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.

When The Hermit is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If The Hermit is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Hermit is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for The Hermit using cards from the Mage Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.


Here are some snippets from a few of my favorite books

Complete Book of Tarot
Book Details
Complete Book of Tarot: We can reduce 18 even further: 1 + 8 = 9, which corresponds to the Hermit (IX).

Tarot Books

Development for Beginners: It is unclear whether or not hypnacogic imagery can actually be classified as psychic, however. That classification is still highly debatable. Although, you may call many different things by many different names, so does it really matter what you call it as long as it gives you the desired results? To paraphrase Shakespeare, a premonitory vision by any other name would still remain as clairvoyant.

Elements of the Psychic World: A person who practises magic and is skilled in spell casting and the magical arts. A magician studies supernormal scientific knowledge and masters psychic skills in the quest to understand humankind’s purpose on earth. The popular image of a magician is characterized by the figure of Merlin – a wise old man in flowing robes and a pointed hat covered with stars. This image is rather outdated today.

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Elements of the Psychic World: A person who practises magic and is skilled in spell casting and the magical arts. A magician studies supernormal scientific knowledge and masters psychic skills in the quest to understand humankind’s purpose on earth. The popular image of a magician is characterized by the figure of Merlin – a wise old man in flowing robes and a pointed hat covered with stars. This image is rather outdated today.