Major Arcana - The Hanged Man

Next on his Journey the Fool encounters the Hanged Man, it's a surreal experience where the Fool has to learn to view life in a new perspective. The Hanged Man is condemned to inactivity and coins, useless in the afterlife, are falling from his pockets. The trees and the log signifies completion and the blank stare is a sign of Bliss. He's suspended between life and death, not touching the material plane. His spirit is freed by him being tied up, existing only on the spiritual level, he sees the world through the eyes of a Higher Power. The Fool too must learn this.

By letting go of everything the Fool knows, by letting go of trained behaviours and thought patterns, emotional reactions and suspending himself by nothing but faith he actually finds the answers he seeks. Sometimes you have to be inactive, immobile, sit in stillness and only then will the answer come. Sometimes not acting is the best answer for how to act. Find Love through Spirituality and the rest will follow...

In the Kabbalah the number twelve symbolises cosmic perfection. It's the heavenly and earthly union. We find the number twelve in many aspects of our earthly lives, twelve months, twelve hours and twelve tribes of Israel. It can also be a number of sacrifice and trial.

The Hanged Man will help and support you when your value system has shifted so deeply that you feel fundamentally different. You might be reaching a state of Enlightnement and as such circumstances and friends might change, this might be scary, but you're evolving and so anything but this new way of viewing things would be to take a step back...