Waite–Smith, Trump 9
The Hermit
What you can see
A cloaked figure stands on a height, leaning on a staff and raising a lantern containing a star.
What Waite says
Waite presents attained light offered as a beacon. He argues against reading this figure merely as someone still searching for truth, or as an emblem of guarded occult isolation.
Waite · Part II, §2 · printed pp. 104–107 ↗Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.