2025: The Year of Inner Reflection and Insight
Ready for some me time? 2025 will be a year of introspection, tuning inwards to understand what your soul craves, and connecting to and growing your inner wisdom. Each year has its own tarot card with themes that affects the collective both on a grand and personal scale. This is based on numerology. The year 2025 (2+0+2+5) breaks down to 9: The Hermit. (To see what your personal year card and message is, click here!)
When The Hermit enters our lives, it’s a chance to seek out quiet moments, turn inwards, and search for answers without the noise or influence of the world around you. This year, prioritize yourself and find time to journey through unknown territory on your own—both on internal and external levels.
The shadow side of The Hermit can show as being uncomfortable alone and refusing to be alone, as well as the flip side of isolating yourself to the point of being…well… a true hermit. If you notice yourself avoiding alone time, or spending too much time in isolation, consider what your shadow needs in order to bring these issues to light.
The Hermit and You
On a personal level, 2025 will be about diving deep inside yourself to unearth new discoveries about what your soul yearns for. There is a guiding light deep within yourself. Give yourself enough alone time to follow this light and see what it might uncover. This year, you are being guided to consult with yourself before all others. The Hermit doesn’t make snap, rash decisions, and instead mulls everything over, keeps probing until the root of the question has been answered. Follow this example to unlock your own guiding light.
The last time we were in a year of The Hermit was 2016. What insights did you uncover about yourself and your world during that time? What discoveries came to light? Is there anything from that time that you wish you would have explored further? This year is your chance to continue this journey.
Ask yourself what currently makes you feel the most connected to your soul. What can you do that makes you feel the most you? What brings you the most peace? What shuts off the noise and chatter of the world around you? Work through these questions in order to connect to The Hermit and bring peace and guidance to the forefront.
The Hermit and the World
This will be a year for introspection, wisdom, and—thank goodness—peace. There will be a call for quiet, for people and communities to connect inward before making decisions. Education and spiritual practices will be heightened during the year.
Communities, organizations, and politicians who make rash and not-thought-out decisions will face push back.
The Hermit and Career
This will be a good year to evaluate your career path. Are you heading in a direction that fulfills you, challenges you, and allows your inner voice to be heard? Journey within to set your needs and goals.
After taking the time to meditate, sit in the quiet or the hush of nature, and listening to what your inner light has to say, this could be an excellent year for a career change, starting your own business, or switching up your obligations.
This will be a good year to carve out space to complete the projects that you’ve been procrastinating on.
This will also be a good year for new insight, taking on an independent study, or going back to school.
The Hermit and Love
Seek inner guidance when navigating your relationships with friends, partners, and family. Are you fulfilled in your relationships? When questions or road blocks arise, turn within. Communicate with your loved ones about your need for alone time and reflection, and encourage them to turn within as well.
Use your alone time to cultivate your self-love and what you need and desire out of your relationships.
To help connect with The Hermit, throughout the year ask yourself:
- What actions connect the most to my soul, and what actions don’t? What can I do to bring in my of the actions that do?
- What can I do to bring more peace and quiet into my life?
- What questions do I need to be asking to sort out my problems? What answers am I afraid to listen to?
- What projects have I left hanging? What can I do or let go of to create time for the projects that are the most important to me?
Further Ways to Connect with The Hermit
Carry around blue topaz to create a calm atmosphere, amethyst to connect to your higher self, blue apatite to increase clarity, and lapis lazuli to help your intuition make decisions.
Try this Hermit Journey meditation to connection with your inner light:
Begin in a comfortable position, place one palm on your stomach, the other on your heart. Breathe in and out slowly, focusing on your breathing and blocking out chatter of the world around you and any nagging thoughts.
Envision a bright light buried deep inside yourself. Picture this light outside of yourself, guarded by branches and vines. As you step toward the light, consider what blockages and questions represent everything in your way. Feel yourself getting lighter as the light grows stronger.
Envision yourself reaching the light. Ask any burning questions, and take ahold of the light as if it is a lantern.
This lantern is now yours to help navigate the world within.
Mantra to help connect to this card: “I trust my inner guidance. I am open to the messages my inner light has for me.”
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