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Today's Tarot - The Hanged Man

Maybe "stagnation" is really a pause for reflection. To unlock the way forward, learn from the path that brought you here.






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Today's Tarot - Hanged Man

The Tarot deck is larger than the modern game-playing card deck. There are two divisions to the tarot deck - the major arcana, and the minor arcana. The word arcana is now mostly associated with the Tarot deck, but, as dictionaries will tell you, it comes from the Latin word arcanum, which just means "secret". So the major arcana of the tarot deck symbolizes the major 'secrets' to life (you know, like 'beauty secrets', top tips, advice, etc.) and the minor arcana symbolizes the more day-to-day kind of hints and tips.

This card is from the major arcana. I think much of what the major arcana teaches is predicated on the idea of balance.

Here the balance point has to do with challenges. The classic interpretation of the Hanged Man is related to "stagnation" or being stuck in the mud. But like I've said before..."one man's stuck in the mud is another man's day at the spa".

If you feel the message of the Hanged Man is for you today, the message could be one of two things. It could be a hint that you are stuck in a rut, too complacent, and the advice is to challenge yourself a little bit. Shake things up in a positive way...learn something, exercise a little extra, recapture something from the past that was good for you before, call an old friend, make a new one...you get the idea.

The other message the Hanged Man can hold is that when life gets too challenging for too long, we can become burned-out, drained, "hung out to dry" (to borrow from the card's imagry). If that is the case the advice becomes a reminder that it is ok to rest and "hang out" for a while. Don't stay so long that you become stagnated and the situation flips to the opposite. (Here is where the Tarot reflects a little bit of the yin-yang theory from the orient...anything taken to the extreme can become its opposite). But if you are over-stressed, the Hanged Man reminds us to balance activity and rest...progress and stagnation...challenging ourselves and being a little more gentle with self-expectations.

Wishing you a day filled with expanding horizons and much needed rest

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The Hanged man 15 Dec 2010

Some ideas are worth repeating, I suppose. If an old idea comes around again, it must be for a reason, so here it is, for you, for whatever it is worth. That's for you to decide.

The first word that comes to mind is connotations.

Connotations of words...the subtle shades of flavor...is the backbone of poetry, and, in many ways of psychic work too.

Think of your gut-level, knee-jerk reaction to the word "retreat" or "avoid"

Now think of your response to "sanctuary" "respite" or "vacation"...all fairly related, when you get down to the basic function. It is all about going from one place to another...all about getting away from something. But the subtle meaning hints at the why, the hidden dynamic.

The same is true of the Hanged Man. For some "stagnation" is something to be changed or avoided. "Rest" "pause" or "respite" is similar in some ways...but it all hints to duration and context. "One man's stuck in the mud is another man's day at the spa". Some have been stagnant too long and need to move. Stagnation is death, in many ways. In a driven person, the rest is the message still...but as a needed thing, not something that needs ending.

So when you are reading tarot cards, how do you know which subtle meaning to use? Feeling, co-ordinating the meaning of the card with the context of other intuitive information.

Today's daily meditation, as they all are, is up to you. Think of the hanged man, IF it has a message for you, what is it relative to your other hunches, your feelings and the context. If there is much left undone, and you are stuck, not growing, not learning, not moving or living...the message is clear. Time to cut yourself loose and get moving again. If you are feeling driven into the ground, stressed to the max, perhaps the advice is to relax, and 'hang out' for a while.

Taoist believe the wisest sage is like a mirror, showing people what they are, as they are...and in so doing show the perfect lesson, give the perfect advice. Tarot, oracle, psychic work can be the same way through connotations and subtle flavors of their symbolic language.

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The Hanged Man

Stagnation transformed into contemplation is perception leading to wisdom

Baihu
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