He is up high - above the highest frozen peak. How can he stand it, being all alone in the cold and dark? Stuck with just himself. No one even to play chess with, and he sure isn't holding a laptop, or electricity - so no virtual games either! Facebook? He never heard of it - nor is he missing it. He is here on this mountain bluff by choice. Just watching the wheels go round and round, as a Beatle once said. Everything seems to slow down when you stand and watch: time....vital signs....thinking.....
Think about the star being locked up. About inspiration being caged and disciplined. The late Allen Ginsberg might have frowned upon that. What advice did he give poets? "First thought, BEST thought." Just write, no censoring! To suffer for art - or betterment in general - is nonsense. Right? Well perhaps, but who said this guy's suffering - or asking us to? The difference between him and the Hierophant. He is in a monastic order of One. You have to climb the mountain in order to talk to him. And he can take or leave you.
IX (or 9) is the number of completion. It's the last single digit odd number. (And this guy may not be so odd as we think.) Astrology informs us that the ninth house is about higher things: education, philosophy, going global (traveling), philosophy and religion. Poetry. It's about thought matrixes that are not self-serving, but intended to lend their light to humankind. Bold initiative - the courage to stand alone (#1) plus seeing infinite connections - 'string theory' of All That Is (#8) equals holding up the lamp to reveal those cosmic connections to all who will see. That's the hermit's job.
Think about the interned light as a sort of eco-generator: he's getting the maximum fuel with minimum effort. He's learned how to harness pure bliss. Of course he's got a grey beard - it takes centuries to learn how to be happy just standing still. Yet there's a dash of Mage in him. See how his staff glows gold!
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