Silence is not absence.

It is reduction.

The Hermit steps away
not to disappear,
but to hear what remains
when the noise withdraws.

This card does not ask you
to abandon the world.

It asks
what must be removed
before the signal can be trusted.

When the Hermit appears,
guidance is not incoming.

It is already present.

The task
is to reduce interference
until it can surface.

Solitude clarifies.

Isolation distorts.

Know the difference.