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Welcome to this week's episode of Moonbebing, your source for all things archetypal,

psychological, esoteric, artistic, and creative. Hi, I'm your host,

Sarah Faith Goddess Steiner. I am so happy you are here with us today. This episode is part

two of a very archetypal series we are exploring, which is a deeper dive into

the nuances of our card of the year, The Hermit. This month is the month where we will be exploring some of the nuances of the archetype,

as well as discuss how it can play out and function in our everyday life.

This is the point of all spiritual and esoteric and archetypal exploration, which is the exploration of life.

If our spiritual exploration does not bring us into deeper connection with life herself,

I don't know. I don't know that it's doing what it's supposed to be doing.

You know, a lot of the times in the tarot, we can use the archetypes as initiators.

They can create experiences we would like to have. They can bring us into particular energies we are ready to embody or we'd like

to embody and integrate or a wisdom, a teaching, a learning we are now ready to step into or integrate. And on the note

of integration, it can also be an aspect of our shadow or maybe parts of ourselves that have

been avoided or submerged or disconnected that we want to reconnect with or we want to bring into

our consciousness and that particular archetype can help us do that as a guide, as a helper,

as a light post, as a lighthouse, as a lantern, which is very hermit. I'm feeling myself

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