Upright Meaning:
When it comes to your home life, the Hermit is telling you that you should plan ahead rather than make big decisions right now. This may be about a big move or the next step in a relationship.
The upright Hermit is about meditation, rather than action. It is about finding out what you really want from your life. Take time out from your friends and family to work out what your own personal goals and ambitions are.
In regards to home and family, the Hermit card can suggest that your wisdom and guidance will help your loved ones soon. Someone might come to you for help in the near future, and listen to your own inner intuition when giving them advice.
Reversed Meaning:
When the Hermit card is reversed in regards to home and family, it reflects somebody who takes on everybody else’s problems but has nobody to turn to themselves. Does this sound like you?
You are a wise person and your friends and family will come to you for advice. Perhaps you are the first port of call when people are making big decisions about their love life and career. You have the ability to soothe any upset and take a practical and thoughtful approach to a situation. This is an amazing part of you, but this is getting difficult for you right now.
When you need somebody to turn to for help, you do not know where to go. You worry that those who turn to you will not help you the same way. You are bottling things up and repressing feelings and this is making you feel extremely lonely.
But, the Tarot knows that you are loved and respected, and your friends and family will help you in the same way that you help them. You just need to reach out! Perhaps they don’t know what is going on in your life, and therefore may seem as if they don’t have time for you. But, of course, they do. They would love to assist you and give you advice, just like you do to them.