What does the The Hermit card mean?

Upright, The Hermit speaks to Solitude, Search, Lamplight. Step off the road for a season. Your own counsel is the counsel worth hearing.

What does The Hermit mean in a love reading?

In love questions, The Hermit describes the emotional weather rather than a verdict. Read it beside the surrounding cards and the position it landed in.

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The Hermit tarot card, Rider–Waite–Smith deck

Arcana: Major Arcana
Yes / No: Yes

Rider–Waite–Smith deck (1909), illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Hermit

SolitudeSearchLamplight

Upright

Step off the road for a season. Your own counsel is the counsel worth hearing.

Reversed

Isolation has curdled. Carry your lamp back down the mountain.

In Love

Romantically it points to a bond changing shape rather than ending. Let the change happen at its own speed.

In Work & Money

Money and craft align here. Ask for the number you actually want, once, without softening it.

The Advice

Slow down until you can name what you actually want from this.

“I am allowed to change my mind in public.”