From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
The Hanged Man
Meanings
Accept the things you cannot change. There can be peace in resignation. Deep commitment to your own beliefs can protect you from society’s scorn, but respect that others may not share your beliefs.
Reversed (?)
A false martyr. If you are always feeling like a victim, then take responsibility to claim more control of your own life. If we ask to be treated poorly, then we cannot complain at the treatment.
Description
This card traditionally portrays a man hung upside-down, with his legs forming a cross. As this deck is not one of esoteric symbols so much as real people, I have used one of the many paintings of St Sebastian as I felt this in keeping with the meaning of the card.
Artwork
- Garden: HAARLEM, Cornelis Cornelisz van, The Fall of Man, 1592 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
- Tree: BLOMMENDAEL, Reyer van, Paris and Oenone, c.1655, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille.
- Man: TIZIANO, Vecellio (Titian), Polyptych of the Resurrection: St Sebastian, 1520, Santi Nazaro e Celso, Brescia.
- Halo: ANGELICO, Fra, Annunciation, 1433-34, Museo Diocesano, Cortona.
