According to folk, the hanged man comes down from the tree when he gains illumination. Time stands still while he hangs on the tree. Observing, absorbing, seeing. In tarot, the hanged man represents inversion. A change of perspective. Suspending your thinking for a moment and letting new things in. The need for growth. The process is often uncomfortable. You move from one stage of life into another. Change. Painful but healthy. This card strikes a cord for me. I've been fixated on what's next for me. I finished school, I'm working. What's next? I feel like I've been in limbo. I'm a goal-driven person; for me, idleness equates to self-destruction that is a product of some type of malady for which the only cure is labor. And so, I am suspending my thoughts, looking at the world upside down, turning the hourglass on its other head.
