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Major Arcana · 9

The Hermitfor Libra · Money and Wealth

The Hermit tarot card

"The answers are in the quiet you keep avoiding."

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On the card

A lonely figure holding a lantern and looking to the left stands on a mountain, walking stick in hand. He represents solitude, but also the wisdom gained from deeply knowing your inner truth. This takes time and mental energy, but leads to a kind of lightness

Upright
Inner GuidanceSoul SearchingSolitudeWisdom

You are being called to turn inward, focus on listening to yourself and become a master in your own voice. Spend time alone (maybe through an artist's date, meditation, or journaling) to connect with your inner hermit. Ponder what you value most and keep that in mind as you navigate this busy world.

Reversed

You are avoiding a part of yourself or some deep truth that you fear to admit. Perhaps you have disconnected from that part of yourself. Alternatively, you may have over indexed on solitude and need to reach out and spend time with people who align with your new found values

Its place in the deck.

Major ArcanaCard 9
One of the 22 Major Arcana. They point to the large themes and turning points in a life, not the day to day. When one comes up, the reading is about something bigger than this week.
StageThe turn inward
After the Fool, the Major Arcana run in three stages of seven: the outer world (1 to 7), the turn inward (8 to 14) and the return (15 to 21). This one is in the turn inward: the point where the tools that worked outside stop working.

Where it shows up.

In the stars
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MercuryThis card's planet
How you think and talk to yourself — your inner monologue.
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The Hermit for Libra in Money and Wealth

The Harmonizer

Mercury against Venus-ruled Libra puts the whole thing into words, which is either the relief or the trap depending on whether Libra then acts on them. Upright, this has turned inward, to the place where the outer tools stop working.

When reading about money through a Libra lens, the Hermit card says that you feel like money is something to split evenly so no one feels short, a way to keep yourself in good standing with people you care about, and something too uncomfortable to discuss directly so you hint and hope. This has either led you to give away more than you can afford and resent it quietly, or to finally name a price and discover that the people worth keeping will actually pay it. You have not looked at your full financial picture all at once, and the not-looking costs more than the looking would. The Libra blind spot in it is being the one who breaks the tie, names the problem, or asks for something first.

In practice that can look like a change in circumstance rather than an amount, or what money is for shifting. Whatever form it takes, it is turning inward, where the usual moves stop working.

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