An old man on a bare peak holds up a lantern containing a six-pointed star.The HermitAn angel pours liquid between two cups, one foot on land and one in water, grounded and fluid at once, and the stream between the cups flows at an angle no physical liquid would.Temperance

Card combination

The Hermit and Temperance

Two slow cards, and the tradition reads the pair as a long patient process undertaken alone. Neither card hurries and neither has an audience. What they describe together is the unglamorous middle of something, which is the part most readings skip.

Together

Two slow cards, and the tradition reads the pair as a long patient process undertaken alone. Neither card hurries and neither has an audience. What they describe together is the unglamorous middle of something, which is the part most readings skip.

In love

Associated with working on yourself in a way that will eventually matter to somebody else. The pair does not rush the timeline.

In career

Read for solitary, incremental work. The pair is favourable and notes it will not look like progress for some time.

The advice

You are in the middle, not stuck. Those feel identical and the difference is only visible from further on.

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