Help help!!!! :) :)

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 08 Aug 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

robyn	08 Aug 2003
hi everyone, i hope all is well. i have a question :D it's in regards to the hang man. i havn'e been reading my cards reversed. i am careful in the manor in which i shuffle my cards (so i thought) on occasion a card will pop up reversed and most of the time that a card shows up reversed, it is usualy the hanged man. and most of the time that the hanged man pops up he is reversed at least 98 percent of the time. this has got me questioning the reversed cards. i looked in the forum for the hanged man reversed and couldn't find a meaning. if anyone knows of a link or some advice, i would love it. the hanged man reversed has some significance to me i just don't know why yet. he says something to me but i cant quite grasp it. the last time he showed up was my last spread it was three cards: 4 of pentacles, The Devil, and the hanged man reversed. Can somebody help me to interpret this, if you have any ideas and the time, please, please share. humbly yours, robyn.

jog1118	08 Aug 2003
*hanged man: suspension, reversal, sacrifice the above are some common keywords for the card plus: *reversals: opposite meaning, reduced effect, blocked energies ...a hanged man reversed means stagnation / an exchange of roles with someone / a sacrifice made but in a lesser degree or just plain opposites of what i've said (frankly, i'm having a hard time explaining this...) let's take a look at your last reading: *4 of pentacles, The Devil, and the hanged man reversed assuming a past, present, future layout: you are holding on to something that is very dear to you (4 pentacles). you've come to a point wherein this "valuable thing" is becoming detrimental to you (devil). you've made some effort to let go of this "thing" but it seems you have made little progress (hanged man reversed). ...a thought just came to my mind: i see that you're just new to tarot. have you been studying tarot too *extensively* that you've almost no time for other more important things in your life? (my intuition only) pls do feedback :smoker:

Elle	08 Aug 2003
Do others want you to give it up? Want you to be more like "them"? Warmest, Elle

Thirteen	08 Aug 2003
Quote: Originally posted by robyn most of the time that a card shows up reversed, it is usualy the hanged man. and most of the time that the hanged man pops up he is reversed at least 98 percent of the time. Do you know, the first thing that popped to mind is the fact that a lot of new readers reverse the Hanged Man at first sight. What I mean by that is, they naturally turn it around, seeing the card as being "upsidedown" at first glance. So I wonder...when you pick up the cards and put them back into the deck...are you accidently turning the Hanged Man around? Not intentionally, but unconsciously, because you're just picking up the cards quickly and forget he's hanging upside-down? Just a thought. If that is not the case, then there are a couple of answers. First, I think Jog did a very good interpetation on the reading. In that spread, the Hanged man would indicate an inability to "sacrifice" something. The hanged man is about a moment of suspension where you see things differently, where you give up something, and are, thus, able to move on. A reversed Hanged Man would indicate an inability to move on, a lack of insight, an unwillingness to sacrifice even if its for your own good. Fear may be involved here--fear of the pain the sacrifice will require. Second: if the Hanged Man is turning up reversed that often, then the cards may be trying to tell you something in general--as compared to specifically within a spread. Usually, they're telling you that you're stuck. So here's another question. Have you been asking the cards same question over and over again? Have you been shuffling them well? Putting them away and letting them--and yourself--rest for a while? A reversed Hanged Man might be the deck's way of telling you that you're overdoing it--and no progress is going to be made until you hang things up, take some time away, and come back with fresh eyes.

DeLani	10 Aug 2003
Hmm...the Hanged Man reversed says to me, especially with the 4 of Pentacles and the Devil, a sort of ego or control issue. Do you consider yourself a "type A" personality? Are you sometimes inflexible, especially in regards to finances and career issues? Do not be afraid to let go. Surrender to the will of the universe, and release any relationships/habits/etc. that are keeping you in an ego-bondage (strokes your ego, but is really bad for you). This is just my take on it. Best wishes.

Umbrae	10 Aug 2003
You most likely are hung up in material concerns, and ignoring what is really happening to you, and around you. :smoker:

robyn	13 Aug 2003
Greetings i hope all is well, sorry it took me so long to reply. i was out of town on buisness. i had to run to San Francisco and Monterey Bay, running around all of north Cali. and i am in LA... LOOOng trip so it’s good to be back. Thank you for all of your replies:) I have taken all of them into consideration. The specific spread was about sexuality. Which for me is a very broad and intricately complicated topic. At the time i had done five or six spreads that day, perhaps that was five or six too many, lately i have only been able to do three spreads at the most in a day. In my deck of cards the title of the hanged man is at the bottom, so it is easy to tell which way he is supposed to be , along with the fact I have seen the card so much that I am aware that his feet are supposed to be at the top of the card when placed back in the deck. Not to discount that I am imperfect so I may have made the mistake before of putting him back in the deck incorrectly. Good point indeed!!! I do believe that there are issues that I have trouble letting go of and because of this I have not been able to see “things” with other points of view. And I do believe that fear, and perhaps ego and sacrifice are elements... I do also feel that i have been slowly ... not particularly ‘letting go’... but feeling more at ease with the way ‘it is’, which is important to me in order to move on and do something more productive with my thoughts, emotions and energy, so that I may perhaps cause change in my views and actions. IT has been a very slow process. All of your posts have been very insightful, and I do appreciate your time and help. Now knowing some of the possibilities for the meanings of a reversed hanged man, I do believe that in the issue of the spread, the hanged man would have been appropriate weather ride side up or upside down. respectfuly and humbly yours, robyn.

samreid26	15 Aug 2003
I got the hang man reversed a couple of times aswell. And I always keep my cards straight. I don't know if it means something because then the hanged man is right side up. It's strange actually. :OL

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