INSIGHTS: The answers you seek are not outside of you but within you. In order to receive the answers, you need to be able to sit with your work (sometimes for days or even weeks) and you have to be able to sit with yourself. This card is based on the Hermit card in the Major Arcana.

The Seeker (The Hermit) is someone who seeks deeper understanding and wisdom in all aspects of their life. It’s someone who needs time alone, away from everyone and everything to really go deep. Sound like anyone you know?!

This card may be showing up today because you may desperately need some Me Time. Putting your phone in Airplane Mode or Do Not Disturb mode for a few hours might be enough. It’s ok to withdraw from the outer world so you can reflect and have time to develop your ideas. In fact, it's necessary.

“Art is a way of recognizing oneself.” — Louise Bourgeois

This card really is about the relationship you have with yourself. The Seeker does not sit alone in the dark. The Seeker needs to withdraw in order to get shit done.

KEYWORDS: Reflection, Introspection, Focus, Permission to Step Away, Mental Health Day, Restorative, Reconnect to Yourself, Mute Notifications, Do Not Disturb Mode, Focus Mode.

PAINTING CREDITS:

Self-Portrait

Vincent van Gogh

St. Remy, France, 1889

57.79 × 44.5 cm (22 3/4 × 17 1/2 in.)

National Gallery, Washington D.C.

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney