Vincent Van Gogh, Jesus Christ, James Stewart, Daniel Boone, Hunter S. Thompson, Bruce Lee, David Lightman, Meg White, John Muir, Michelangelo, Leonardo DaVinci, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Hunter, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Molly Shannon, Aristotle, Terence McKenna, Ava Gardner, Alberto Vargas, Timothy Leary, Bettie Page, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Annie Leibovitz, John Hughes, Walter Becker, John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Tecumseh, Albert Hofmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Miles Davis, Molly Ringwald, Pablo Picasso, Ken Kesey, Jack Nicholson, Salvador Dali, Duane Allman, Trey Anastasio, Rodney Dangerfield, Dalai Lama, Alex Grey, Earl Townsend Jr., Aldous Huxley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Alfred Hitchcock, Carroll Shelby, Vic Edelbrock, Henry David Thoreau, writers, musicians, artists, freethinkers
Self-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound.
With the Hanged man there is often a sense of fatalism, waiting for something to happen. Or a fear of loss from a situation, rather than gain.
The Hanged Man is perhaps the most fascinating card in the deck. It reflects the story of Odin who offered himself as a sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. Hanging from the world tree, wounded by a spear, given no bread or mead, he hung for nine days. On the last day, he saw on the ground runes that had fallen from the tree, understood their meaning, and, coming down, scooped them up for his own. All knowledge is to be found in these runes.
The Hanged Man has let go of worldly attachments. He has sacrificed a desire for control over his circumstances in order to gain an understanding of, and communion with, creative energies far greater than his individual self. In letting go, the hero gains a profound perspective accessible only to someone free from everyday conceptual, dualistic reality.
The Hanged Man, in similar fashion, is a card about suspension, not life or death. It signifies selflessness, sacrifice and prophecy. You make yourself vulnerable and in doing so, gain illumination. You see the world differently, with almost mystical insights.
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