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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