The Hermit and The Moon

A lantern in the dark, which is the literal picture: The Hermit carries a light and The Moon is the landscape it is not big enough to illuminate. The tradition reads the pair as searching honestly in conditions that do not permit certainty.

Associated with working something out alone while the situation is still unclear.

A decision being examined carefully before the facts are all in.

The Hermit's lantern shows the next step and no further. The pairing suggests that is enough to be going on with.