09-The Outcast – Upright Salem Deck

Your Chosen Card – The Outcast Upright Salem Deck

When upright, the Hermit indicates a need to spend time far from the madding crowd. Now is a time to collect your thoughts and regroup your forces. A period of solitude and contemplation is in order. In this modern age of technology, someone quipped that meditation provides the answers you can’t find on Google. You have been through a lot, and the time has come to wait and watch. An attitude of patient circumspection will allow you to put matters in perspective and learn from your experience. You might consider reading Eckhardt Tolle’s book The Power of Now.

Keywords Upright: Introspection, meditation, spiritual retreat, careful attention, solitude, prudence, maturity, self-possession, the wisdom of experience, watchfulness, circumspection, discernment, perspective, patient pursuit of knowledge, quiet contemplation, spiritual illumination, philosophical insight, the search for meaning, the power of Now, replenishment of the soul.

Key IX: The Hermit
Myths/Archetypes: The Wise Old Man. The Sage. The Philosopher. Buddha. Jedi Master Yoda (whose name contains the Hebrew letter Yod).
Dates of Virgo: 23 August–23 September; 17 September–16 October (sidereal)
Astrology: Virgo, the Virgin (an Earth sign ruled by Mercury)
Numerology: 9 (The Hermit) = 1 + 8 (The Moon)

Hebrew letter: Yud or Yod (an arm and closed hand; a Hebrew word meaning to do a deed, make, work, throw, or worship; a closed fist holding something). Notice the Hermit’s arm and closed fist holding the lantern on the card.

When The Outcast is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If The Outcast is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Outcast is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for The Outcast using cards from the Salem Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.


Here are some snippets from a few of my favorite books

Portable Magic
Book Details
Portable Magic: Each suit contains ten tarot cards numbered from One to Ten. The Ones are often known as Aces. Each suit also holds four noble or court tarot cards generally known as the King, Queen, Knight, and Page. In some esoteric decks these names are altered, but the system of Golden Dawn correspondences used throughout this book is based on the order of the court tarot cards, and remain unchanged regardless of how the tarot cards may be titled, or what specific details of symbolism appear on the tarot cards. The Page has the same associations whether it is called the Knave or the Princess because it is the fourth of the four court tarot cards of its suit. For the sake of familiarity I have used the names for the court tarot cards employed in the popular Rider Waite Tarot King, Queen, Knight, and Page.

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: We can reduce 18 even further: 1 + 8 = 9, which corresponds to the Hermit (IX).

Angel Encyclopedia: Michael caused a medicinal spring to appear; anyone who bathed there and invoked the Blessed Trinity and Michael was said to be cured. The miracles, conversions, and baptisms at the spring aroused the jealousy of the pagan Hellenes. They gathered a mob and dammed two rivers to combine them. The waters were directed onto Colossae and the church at the spring. But Archippus, a God-fearing hermit who had settled at the spring when just a boy, heard the roaring waters and called upon Michael (the Archistrategos) for help.

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Angel Encyclopedia: Michael caused a medicinal spring to appear; anyone who bathed there and invoked the Blessed Trinity and Michael was said to be cured. The miracles, conversions, and baptisms at the spring aroused the jealousy of the pagan Hellenes. They gathered a mob and dammed two rivers to combine them. The waters were directed onto Colossae and the church at the spring. But Archippus, a God-fearing hermit who had settled at the spring when just a boy, heard the roaring waters and called upon Michael (the Archistrategos) for help.