Your Chosen Card – The Hanged Man Upright Mage Deck
When upright, the Hanged Man looks like an image reflected in the surface of a body of water, suggesting that what we perceive with our senses is but a reflection of a deeper reality. To understand what is really real, we may need to adopt a new perspective. If your life feels like its on hold or in a state of suspension, its time to adopt a spiritual perspective and pursue the greater good. We sometimes need to make sacrifices and let go of something we value to achieve a greater good. In any case, when the Hanged Man appears in a reading, you are likely to be viewing or doing something out of the ordinary in a way that sets you apart from the more accepted approach of those around you.
Keywords Upright: Sacrifice for the greater good, a state of suspension; waiting, surrender, devotion, altruism, serenity, faith, visionary thinking, release, going with the flow, letting go, feeling like you are on hold, redemption through sacrifice, adopting a unique perspective, doing something out of the ordinary, a spiritual viewpoint, a novel way to view a situation, loving kindness, compassion, evenly suspended attention.
Key XII: The Hanged Man (The Traitor)
Myths/Archetypes: Jesus. Buddha. Odin. Cuauhtémoc. The Martyr. The Sacrificial Lamb. Benedict Arnold. The Traitor.
Astrology: Water (Neptune in some modern decks)
Numerology: 3 (Empress) = 1 + 2 (Hanged Man) = 2 + 1 (The World)
Rider Waite: Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy; (R) selfishness, the crowd, the body politic.
When The Hanged Man is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If The Hanged Man is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Hanged Man is trying to tell you. If you had a particular issue in mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.
This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for The Hanged Man using cards from the Mage Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.
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Development for Beginners: It is unclear whether or not hypnacogic imagery can actually be classified as psychic, however. That classification is still highly debatable. Although, you may call many different things by many different names, so does it really matter what you call it as long as it gives you the desired results? To paraphrase Shakespeare, a premonitory vision by any other name would still remain as clairvoyant.
Elements of the Psychic World: A practice of divination using bowls of brass – a metal thought to protect against evil spirits – which were filled with water or ink and used as focal points i n scrying or capturing glimpses of the future in scenes and images appearing in the bowl. The diviner would stare at the liquid without blinking until a trancelike state was entered and visions experienced. Said to have been the practice by which Nostradamus came about his knowledge of the future.
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Elements of the Psychic World: A practice of divination using bowls of brass – a metal thought to protect against evil spirits – which were filled with water or ink and used as focal points i n scrying or capturing glimpses of the future in scenes and images appearing in the bowl. The diviner would stare at the liquid without blinking until a trancelike state was entered and visions experienced. Said to have been the practice by which Nostradamus came about his knowledge of the future.