As I putter around my cottage, lighting candles and putting the kettle on to boil…. I prattle on, filling your ears with the warm, embers of my voice as it echoes towards you:

“I called you here to offer you my hermitage as you walk your own unique hermit cobblestone path into the year. 9-based years (the hermit card) are for deep reflection as we experience completions, releases, integrations and prepare for a new step off the cliff as the fool whose wisdom is only to carry forward what is necessary.

On february 22, I woke in the seclusion of my room in solitude, a dream lingering in my sight, of a village sending off the Fool (I pass you the 0 card of my tarot deck) as they stepped off an ocean cliff, laughing as they plunged into the waves. Upon rising, an elder threw down a pouch of gold. The fool grasped it with a smile as it sunk slowly beneath the surface and upon turning, was met with a sturdy surf board and a short swim to an anchored floating dock. Joyously, they grabbed the board, merrily laughing ‘always just what I need when I need it.”

When the hermit meets the fool, there is countered understanding between them:

• The fool trusts they will be offered whatever wisdom or resources they need next - they can totally trust in the village and in something higher than them

• The hermit trusts that what they find in exploring within is the wisdom the Fool needs next - they can totally trust in the power of inner exploration and the wisdom revealed there

As my soul hermit card meets a hermit year, with a personal year of the Death card, my dream offered me wisdom I needed just for this spring - to take a leap with higher power, to step away from the societal village and to trust that what I have to offer around tarot is the next way for me - even if I don’t understand yet…as the fool never does understand until close to the very very end.

Love, I’m inviting you to do the same.”