The Hanged Man

Tarot de Marseille · XII · Water

Essence: A forced or chosen pause, accepting that there's no progress right now, sacrifice, devotion, seeing things from another angle, indecision

Traditional reading: Acceptance of sacrifice, abandonment, lack of clarity, indecision, suffering, a person of many sacrifices; reversed: gets everything without sacrifice, accepts the moment and feels good

General meaning

Upright

pausesacrificedevotionnew perspectivesuspension

↕ Reversed: Useless sacrifice, waiting for the sake of waiting, victimhood, refusing to stop, giving too much, or a wait that ends

By topic

Love: relationship on holdwaiting for a signsacrifice for the other personindecisiondevotion
Friendship: a friend who waitssacrifice for a frienddistancedevotionpatience
Family: family sacrificewaiting for newsgiving things up for otherspatiencea bond on hold
Career: voluntary stagnationcareer breaksacrificerefocusingwaiting for an opportunity
Work: stalled projectwaiting for a decisionprofessional sacrificerethinkpause
Studies: standstillrethinking your approachcourse on holdvocational indecisionperspective
Money: stalled investmentwaiting before actingtemporary sacrificeblockrethink
Pets: convalescencean animal that waitssacrifice for its carepatienceslow adjustment
Health: forced restslow recoverynecessary pausea body asking you to stoptreatment on hold
Choices: don't decide yetchange your viewlet go of controlsacrificewait
Creative projects: project on holdrethinksacrificewaiting for it to maturenew approach
Creativity: fruitful blocklooking at it upside downslow gestationsacrifice for the workpause

The keywords for each topic describe the card upright; the reversed meaning has its own line.

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