The Hermit is quite a literal card and suggests it’s time to look within for answers, to retreat from the busy, noisy world and take a time out to reflect and analyse events and information to come to a more enlightened position.
The Emperor is a powerful, strong, commanding presence in the tarot, a symbol of authority and security, a ‘father figure’.
The Empress is the tarot’s symbol of motherhood, womanhood, femininity, and fertility. Obviously, this impacts most directly on the realms of love, romance, family, and home, but it can extend, more abstractly, into creativity and new idea generation.
The third card of the major arcana, indeed the whole tarot deck, and a prompt that you have now, with The Fool and Magician, begun a story, taken action, and could do with a sit down to reflect on the circumstances and events so far.
The Magician shows that you are ready, willing, and now able (like never before) to recognise, understand and create genuine magic, from deep within.
The first card of the major arcana, indeed the whole tarot deck, and its patron saint of new beginnings, clean slates, fresh starts, and original journeys.
