The Eights
Major arcana: Hermit/Judgement Position on wheel: Midwinter Solstice. Chakra: womb.
The Eight of Wands: Hearthfire
A hearthfire burns brightly, fed by logs from the eight directions. A coming together of the wishes, and intentions laid down earlier in the year. An energised harvest that creates the warmth of regeneration. Happiness of the home, and visits of friends to your hearth in the winter. Generating a warmth at the heart of ones life.
   
Eight of Arrows: Struggle
A person wrapped up against the bitter cold, struggling through a snow blizzard, has difficulty finding their way home. A feeling of being alone, struggling in many aspects of one’s life. A need for support, to open one’s heart to the potential ‘hearthfire’ and for others to reach out and help.
   
Eight of Cups: Rebirth
The wheel has come full cycle. On one level this represents a solstice feast, a broth made for sharing. On a deeper level this card represents a profound rebirth. In the centre stands the cauldron of transformation in which all the elements of oneself are being poured in order to be recombined. A Sheila-na-gig faces you, guardian of death and rebirth, focusing you in the present. On either side of her, one head looks towards your past, another to your future. The red, green, white and black of the whole wheel are present.
   
Eight of Stones: Skill
Deep within a cave a person chisels an eight spoked design by lamplight. Around them are prehistoric carved and painted stones. This card represents someone who is able to work alone, in deep concentration, skilled and mature, in tune with something greater than themselves. The completion of a large project.
   
The Seer
Minor arcana: Nines. Position on wheel: guardian and centre.
Outside of time. Colour: all.
The Seer stands beside the roots of the Greenwood Tree. Behind are the trees that mark the boundary of the inner sanctuary of the Greenwood (Respect, nine of wands). Ancient moss covered stones form another barrier, It is essential that the Seer stands still at the centre of the wheel, having knowledge of all aspects of the previous 65 cards, and of the four elements. She holds the staff (fire), stands by the spring (water) where an arrowhead lies (air). She is firmly on the earth.
Her staff is encircled by the double headed serpent of the land in balance; her medicine pouch of sacred objects and her antler whistle for calling the spirits are tied upon it. Glowing on top of the staff is a sphere of energy, necessary for second sight. She stands still at twilight-that magical time of the gloaming, when the veils between the worlds is thin. She is wrapped around by a barn owl, that flies silently at dawn and dusk, its soft plumage red brown and white, black and gold, with its beautiful heart-shaped face and piercing eyes, making it a fitting totem of the vision of the heart of the land.

Upon her green cloak are prehistoric painted animals, aurochs, horse, reindeer, mammoth, lion, owl and plants. The Seer is keeper of ancestral memory (nine of stones, Tradition), and its myths, able to see into the past, and understand its connection and interaction with the present. She is sensitive to her environment, to the nature around her. She is knowledgeable, not only intuitively, but she also has a keen intelligence and alert awareness, and can protect her land, and her clan from desecration of its natural inheritance.

She stays still but misses nothing-she is completely at one with the heartbeat of the land, which allows her to traverse all worlds. The Seer acts upon her visions, she is not a passive day dreamer. She can be prophetic, aware of much that others miss. The mediator between The Seer and the community is The Shaman.

Incidentally, I do not see this as a gendered quality; I know of skilled male seers (William Blake) and powerful female shamans.