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Bringing things into balance. Settling debts. Letting go of things if they do
How do we come to terms with death? How do we prepare for it? Reconcile its inevitability? The Hanged Man is the act of giving something permission to die, and this can be a time of profound acceptance and detachment. However, it can just as easily be mired with suffering, resistance and fear. Often, it is both.
There is wisdom found in the animal kingdom in their relationship to transformation. Resistance of The Hanged Man and the denial of Death are connected to the ego, which animals do not possess.
To grow, you must
outgrow.
Detachment is necessary at times, but getting stuck in this energy can lead to depression, indifference and alienation.
Like a snake shedding its skin, The Hanged Man sheds only
Getting ready to release something. Letting go.
But for either of those to take place, the dying needs to happen. It’s a loss, and a significant one, and it probably fucking sucks. Even if it is graceful, dignified and right, there is inevitable pain that accompanies it.
The comfort of Death is that whatever is passing is no longer meant to live. It could be said that in Justice we have discovered what needs to die, in The Hanged Man we let go
This is going to suck. It’s going to feel surreal. Reach out, take care of yourself, get support, seek solace in ritual, give yourself space to grieve, don’t try to pretend like everything is okay. It’s not. But it eventually will be. Something is dying, and yes, it’s really over, even though that feels impossible.
Spiritual, divine or angelic intervention. Direct contact with your guides and masters. Being protected or overseen by a benevolent energy. Mediumship, a message from a departed loved one will make itself known through Temperance. Returning to your center. Choosing the middle way. Avoiding extremes. Combining different elements to achieve equilibrium. Finding the right mix. Adding elements rather than taking things away to solve a problem. A harmonious merging of seemingly opposing energies. A time of harmony and balance. A feeling of exhilaration, well-being, health and lightness after Death.
The Devil brings us face to face with our deepest defects.
We aren’t still holding on to these blocks due to laziness or deficiency. This is some primo shit. Our bodies grew around these blocks. They reside in the very marrow of our bones, are embedded in our souls and our psyches. They are wounds we were born with, or that were inflicted early and often, before we could properly defend and protect ourselves, and have since festered and metastasized. Now they are so insidious that we often confuse them as facts of who we are. There is no quick fix, no neat extraction for The Devil. When it leaves us, it is under
When we get to the bottom of The Devil’s manifestation in our life, we will often find a hurt inner child. A wounded fragment of ourselves that chipped off and got amber-trapped in time. It may still be active in our life because we have denied its existence, or met it with hostility when nurturing was called for.
The topic in question has become toxic. Addiction. Excess and overindulgence. Obsession. An abusive relationship. Materialism. Hedonism. Destructive behavior. False need. Saying no to life. Disconnected from spirituality and our divine source. Surrendering to pleasure, vices and indulgence. The shadow self at play. Powerlessness. Feeling trapped or denial of being trapped. Though denial is a common defense to further The Devil’s workings, it does not appear in a reading unless we are ready to see
Okay guys, shit is hitting the fan. There is no way around it. The Tower offers no quick fix, no neat solution, no way of pretending that everything is okay. Our life is ablaze, and the only option is to offer ourselves to the
The Tower is the prayer for freedom answered, whatever it takes. The willingness to do anything necessary is requisite, because The Devil’s wounds are deep, and The Tower will rip us open to our core to extract them.
