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The Hanged Man

Major Arcana

This is tarot, a different tradition from astrology. The card is drawn at random: nothing in the sky chooses it. It is a prompt for reflection and it predicts nothing.

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Tarot cardMajor Arcana

Traditionally read as suspension and a changed point of view: a pause in which waiting or surrender gives a new angle. It is associated with letting go of the urge to act at once.

  • pause
  • surrender
  • perspective
A question to sit withWhat would I see if I stopped pushing and looked from the other side?
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Reversed

What the tradition associates with this card when it falls the other way up.

Reversed, traditionally read as a pause that has turned into stalling. The tradition associates it with waiting that no longer yields a new view, with a sacrifice that serves nothing, or with refusing a delay that the situation requires.

  • stalling
  • needless sacrifice
  • restlessness
A question to sit withWhat am I still waiting for, and is the waiting teaching me anything?

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