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(Quiz here / More detailed card meanings here.)

The Hanged Man

The Arcana is the means by which all is revealed. In the face of disaster lies the opportunity for renewal.“

The
Hanged Man Arcana is associated with self-sacrifice for the sake of
enlightenment, the bindings that makes one free, paradoxes and hanging
between heaven and earth. You should take the time necessary to reflect
over one’s upcoming actions.

You are sometimes self-sacrificial,
but are more often notable for being caught between two different
extremes, parties or stages in life.

The Tarot Hanged Man card is about personal sacrifice, of course. But
this figure seems not to be broken, although hanging upside-down. He
will bounce right back, as soon as he manages to get free. It’s not that
he heals easily. The Tarot Hanged Man is one of the few who is not hurt
to begin with, as if invulnerable. Maybe that’s what tempts other
people to use him as a scapegoat.

But the Tarot Hanged Man is a martyr that neither dies nor suffers
that tremendously. He has a way of shaking it off, the essence of which
is his unharmed belief in the universal power of good. An optimist,
indeed. Someone who loves life so much that he sees the light of it and
not its shadows.

When victimized by other people, and that happens frequently, the
Hanged Man doesn’t feel like a victim. When exposed to envy or even
hate, he sees beyond it and pities the people who are so aggravated. The
Hanged Man may even blame himself, but not for long. He has trust in
all of mankind, however hard reality might whip him.

So, in a Tarot reading the Hanged Man card indicates a sacrifice, maybe
even a big one, but it will not be harmful at length. You will come out
of it on top. Like they say: what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,
and in this case happier, too.

If the Tarot Hanged Man card refers to a person, which it often is, it
is someone who is willing to make the sacrifice needed for things to
find their solution – even if that sacrifice is completely unrewarded.
It is an attitude worth admiring, but people tend to do so only
secretly, keeping it to themselves. That may be out of guilt, knowing
they should have volunteered to make that sacrifice.