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Citizen
Join Date: 22 Mar 2012
Location: Oregon
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Calling all female Hermits!
I've been noticing more and more how much I love the Hermit and want to be him. So now I'm in the process of gorging myself on inspiration, and I think I might like to decorate my personal space somehow with an image of a lady Hermit, as a reminder of all the things I love about this archetype. Or even if I don't do that, I want to look at some.  Can you help point me toward decks where the Hermit is depicted as a woman, or as ambiguously-gendered? This is what I've got so far: * Gendron * Goddess * Fantastical Creatures * Manga * Crystal Visions * Shadowscapes, ambiguous * Lots of animal decks.  There a few other ambiguous ones I noticed, but I skipped them as boring. But, did I skip one of your favorites? Or another card you love that is hermit-like without actually being Card IX? For example, my favorite card of all time is the Shadowscapes Nine of Pentacles. (Agh, she's so awesome! Every time I look at that page I die a little inside because the original painting is still available. I kind of can't bear to buy a print with that still there, even though I will never have that kind of money. But, oh, if I did...!) Anyway, she's #9, so my friend calls that card "a sort of mini-hermit." I think that is thoroughly awesome. So if you have any other favorite minor arcana that seem lady-hermit-ish, especially in the nines, post those, too! And, what the heck--if your favorite Hermit of all time is a dude, show me him, too.
__________________ "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" - "Song of Myself," Walt Whitman |
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Citizen
Join Date: 23 Apr 2005
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silicon dawn also has female hermit __________________ currently reading with: Nusantara Tarot "The art of losing isn't hard to master..." |
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Hermit
Join Date: 21 Dec 2010
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The Hermit is Virgo, so I think it is appropriate to consider it to be ambiguously gendered, regardless of the image on the card. |
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Citizen
Join Date: 01 Oct 2007
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The Hermit in the World Spirit tarot is a woman. __________________ Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Jung |
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Extemporaneous
Join Date: 31 Jan 2004
Location: Israel
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How about something not strictly Tarot related, but symbollically connected, like Yael, who killed Sisera in her tent (see the connection?  ) and became a hero?
__________________ "Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view" Obi-wan Kenobi |
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believer in magic
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Join Date: 03 Feb 2002
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The World Spirit Tarot has a female hermit and she's lovely. __________________ 'Be excellent to each other' - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. 'the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it' - Roald Dahl 'Immerse your soul in love' - Radiohead |
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Citizen
Join Date: 23 Jan 2006
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Twilght Realm: A Tarot of Faery. The Hermit: http://tarotcanada.org/twilighthermit.jpg Vanessa Tarot. The Hermit: http://tarotinateacup.files.wordpres...rmit.jpg?w=490 The Black Ibis Tarot. The Hermit: http://bethalynnebajema.com/blackibis/card-hermit.jpg From the same author (created by artist Bethalynne Bajema), Sepia Stains Tarot. The Hermit: http://bethalynnebajema.com/sepiasta...5/09hermit.jpg Affirmations for the Everyday Goddess Tarot. The Hermit: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SAAzSL6jdU...arotHermit.jpg Not completed nor printed, Annette Abolins Tarot. The Hermit: http://www.abolinaart.com.au/illustr...rot-hermit.jpg __________________ catiana celtiberian apprentice |
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Beautiful, and Fabulously Twisted.
Join Date: 02 Jan 2009
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The Decameron Tarot (not for the under-age) has an -er- unusual female presence in the Hermit which, alas, is not pictured here. __________________ Life is a holy moment, a brief flash of sentience in the sacred abyss. |
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Explorer of the Ordinary
Join Date: 05 Aug 2001
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Both Spiral and Celestial has female Hermits. __________________ To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Chilton Pearce "why play word games with concepts such as 'extra.ordinary' when we haven't even really encountered the ordinary" |
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Citizen
Join Date: 22 Mar 2010
Location: Michigan U.S.A.
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The Mary El Tarot has an ambiguous Hermit card as well which shows only the hands. |
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