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Hello everyone! It can be so interesting what can be tugged and pulled through the intuitive thread and be revealed through tarot readings when I do them. Today, we have magical guidance on a different way to look at hermiting or the dark night of the soul (when it is an extended period). Here is the audio, video, and transcript.

Hierophant, Hermit, Hierophant, Queen of Wands, Six of Wands, Aeon, Judgment. The Hermit card signifies going inwards for a time. This is a chrysalis period. You take your lantern, your light, and you enter the cave willingly to be there for a while. It may feel like limbo. It may feel like nothing is happening. But there is a reason for this retreat, for this time of hermiting.

Hierophant refers to spirituality, higher authority, higher meaning, going deep into your intuition, getting in touch with spirituality through whatever means it may be. It may be through yoga, it may be through meditation, and this also indicates potentially finding your anam cara, your spiritual friend. That's a term that I learned from the book by John O'Donohue, an amazing Irish writer. He wrote the book Anam Cara, Soul Friend.

This may be a time where you isolate yourself, but somehow you find yourself connecting with information, sources, teachings, wisdom and others who are on a similar path as you. And as a result, the queen of wands has a little bit of the witchy Hecate energy where you get in touch with mysticism and magic, where you almost enter into Hogwarts through your cave period, through your period of introversion, your time in the chrysalis, and you start to play with your power.