The Hermit Tarot card artwork

Creating each Tarot card of the major arcana has been quite a journey and strangely each card that I produce seems to connect with my current experiences in life at the time of producing each particular card.

The Hermit card touches me really deep & like some of the other cards it really resonates. I spent a large portion of my life, many years just feeling an urge inside to shelter in the shadows & hide away from the world and the people around me.

It is and it’s always been difficult to relate to most people, I never know how to communicate with everyday people, I mask myself and blend in to avoid conflict. This makes me somewhat of a hermit even when going out and socialising.

You get so used to being by yourself that you locate a light inside in all of that expanse of darkness, an abyss of thick black space where your an alien if you will on a planet surrounded by so many people that don’t make much sense.

You hold such a light of power to keep everything looking so bright in amongst that dark despair. It comes from inside yourself and keeps you going, giving you a strength to carry on through time.

The Hermit is one of the wisest souls in life, they stay safe from the chaos all around so hide away in the darkest places, they have a firm grasp of reality and yet can escape it, they enjoy their own company mostly so enjoy being who they are with their unique interests and pursuits, & most of all they feel they are in the presence of the divine.

The artwork shows a mystical old man alone in the dark woods on an island that’s surrounded by a vast expanse of water. He enjoys this little place where he hides under the trees alone, but yet he’s not really alone for he as a light so profound with him. He holds a stick of light that is both of the below and the above, he contains within a metaphysical wisdom & embraces both the light & the shadow.

He sees deep inside, in that light a being that guides & supports him, illuminating his path with a feeling of great infinite power, an unconditional love of that which speaks to him. He sees before him a light bearer that many are too blind to see for they have fallen into the dystopian void of masses.

The thing is though, the biggest secret of all & that he his that being of light, that angel so many fear and vilify, that infinite sun of god for when he dies so does the world.