The Hanged Man
The Hanged Man calls for surrender and a willingness to view life from an inverted perspective, suggesting that releasing control can produce clarity and allow events to fall into place. It emphasizes that by stilling the mind and allowing a higher order to unfold, you may see life clearly for the first time. The image also carries an element of apparent risk and urgency, reminding you that suspension is temporary and one must eventually return to grounded action. Balance between surrender and the need to right oneself is the core guidance offered.
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Ally
The line is primed, the fish are ready, and it is almost time for you to submerge yourself into a situation of surrender. This is the part you must play for the moment, and that is to let go, allow, and understand that there is a higher order to what is taking place. Although things look upside down from your new point of view, there may be a very good chance you are seeing life clearly for the very first time. Things might be falling into place around you in a way they have never done before. In fact, the more you surrender, the more things become clear and the pieces fall into place. All you have to do is let go, still your mind, and let things sort themselves out.
Challenger
One of the biggest crowd pleasers of any show is the ability to perform death-defying feats, or at least those that appear to defy danger, even if just an illusion. Here, the performer is suspended above an oversized fishbowl, and apparently his feat is to untie himself and get out of the bowl, before the fish eat him. More than likely, the fish are vegans and couldn't care less about the performer. Yet, the element of risk is always present when someone is suspended upside down for too long. Regardless of whether there is any real danger at hand, there is an urgency for this performer to complete his task and right himself, for one cannot hang upside down forever. Eventually, you, too, will need to plant your feet back on the ground.
Visual Description
An upside-down figure hangs by the feet from a thin rope, suspended in a shaft of luminous yellow-green light. Beneath him sits a large glass jar or vessel filled with water and two fish, their forms visible through the curved glass. Two small, puppet-like figures at the jar's sides hold the ropes that suspend the central figure, and a star-speckled dark background frames the scene. Wisps of mist or smoke curl around the top of the jar and the hanging figure, and a decorative title band at the bottom reads 'XII · THE HANGED MAN.'
Cirque du Tarot
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