The Hermit
Lighting the path

The hermit represents the end of the first cycle. The hermit has stepped back from the world, done the necessary internal work, and has re-emerged, complete in wisdom, to hold the light of his wisdom aloft in the service of other travellers.

 

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Colors

White: beard, mountain peaks.

Yellow: lining of hood and cuffs of robe.

Green: sleeves of shirt under robe.

 

Grey: mountain peak hermit stands on, mountains in background, robe.

Brown: skin of hermit.

Beige: wooden staff.

 

 

Blue: night sky.

Indigo: yod on hermit's head.

Silver: lantern.

Gold: Star inside lamp .

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