The Major Arcana Tarot card associated with Virgo is The Hermit.
By Michelle Crandell
If your astrological sign is Virgo, The Hermit is the Major Arcana card representing personal qualities you can use to actualize your life’s purposes. The Hermit fosters introspection: spending time alone contemplating one’s own thoughts, feelings, and actions, in an effort to gain wisdom.
The Hermit pursues esoteric interests, especially in the dark and unknown corners of his own mind. For the Hermit/Virgo, this is a rational, empirical, dispassionate activity. Hermits seek order, harmony, and beauty in the lives they create for themselves. They are careful and deliberate in thought and action. They are inherently ethical. They believe the basic nature of “who someone is and is not” is revealed by how they attend to details and organization.
Hermits especially focus on transitions, endings, and beginnings. Because of this, Virgo/Hermits are gifted in their ability to help others make transitions, especially those involving completions or new beginnings. Gracious and diplomatic, Hermits make excellent team members and contributors to a group effort.
Challenges include the inability to complete tasks or move on, social isolation, coming to false conclusions due to limited perspective, getting stuck in the past, self-cruelty, and using seclusion and meditation as an escape rather than for exploration.
ARCHETYPES: Sage, Crone, Yoda, Hades, Radagast, the Woodland Wizard in Lord of the Rings.
SHADOW ARCHETYPES: Hoarder, Loner, Ted Kaczynski.
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