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The Hermit

Major arcana · IX
The The Hermit card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A cloaked elder stands on a snowy peak holding up a lantern with a six-pointed star inside it, leaning on a long staff.

Upright

  • Solitude
  • Search
  • Guidance

The lantern lights a step, not a road. Traditionally a card of deliberate withdrawal — time taken apart, for a reason you could name if asked.

Reversed

  • Isolation
  • Avoidance
  • Lost thread

Reversed, the withdrawal loses its purpose: solitude that has become distance, or a search postponed by staying busy.

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About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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