In this continuation of their non-linear journey through the tarot, Phil and JF discuss the ninth Arcanum: the Hermit. Walking through darkness with his lantern and staff, the Hermit invites us to break from the collective and seek a direct relationship with the Real. This is the card of the seeker, the misfit, the sage, and the wanderer. As tends to happen in these tarot episodes, the hosts take the opportunity to range across many topics, connecting the Hermit to Jung’s Red Book, the Desert Fathers, angels and demons, the I Ching, contemporary politics, and more.

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REFERENCES

Carl Jung, The Red Book

Stanley Kubrick, American filmmaker

Samuel Beckett, Irish writer

Emily Dickinson, American poet

Temptation of Saint Anthony

Our Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot

Weird Studies, Episode 103 on the Tower card

The Gnostic Tarot

Nigel Richmond, Language of the Lines

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

John Minford, The I Ching: The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Oracle and Book of Wisdom

William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"

Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Way of the Tarot

Wolfgang Petersen (dir.), The Neverending Story

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