The Hermit (tarot card)

The Hermit (IX) is the ninth trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional tarot decks.

The Rider–Waite version of the card shows an old man, standing on a mountain peak, carrying a staff in one hand and a lit lantern containing a six-pointed star in the other.

According to Eden Gray, his lantern is the Lamp of Truth, used to guide the unknowing, his patriarch's staff helps him navigate narrow paths as he seeks enlightenment and his cloak is a form of discretion.

Waite's 1910 book Pictorial Key to the Tarot, the Hermit card carries several divinatory associations:[2] 9.

Reversed: Concealment, disguise, policy fear, unreasoned caution.A version of Pamela Colman Smith's Hermit designed by Barrington Colby is depicted on the inner jacket sleeve of Led Zeppelin IV.