Debra
He's probably gone mad with pain, Nicky. His arms are crossed and trussed up behind him, bones broken, and those feathers are his fingers. Don't hate me.
zan_chan said:Hi Nicky,
Just a thought. Excuse my butting into your thread
conversus said:This image captures what real betrayal looks like, feels like whether we are the betrayed or the betraying.
Confronted with this image—caught up out of otherwise normal time, space, and social interactions by our actions or those of others—we have the opportunity to ponder our actions, our sitz-im-leben, to think again.
Suffering is singularly arresting, real, immediate, my own.
CED
Debra said:In reading the hanged man card: It does come up when people are "on hold," but personally I've always had doubts the AE Waite idea that the figure voluntarily seeks enlightenment by hanging himself upside down so the blood would rush to his head. A couple of times when Hanged Man turned up and I've said "the traditional meaning is traitor," the people I was reading for said, "O yes I've been betrayed."
conversus said:Where will your story lead you.
If the appearance of Le Pendu is an epiphanic moment for you, follow the light!