firemaiden
Hmmm.... I guess what I am trying to get at, is what the importance is, behind the association with Saturn. I can see that the legs might be interpreted to imitate the glyph of Saturn... my question, is... why? or... so what? Why did Waite care (if he did) about Saturn enough to put it on a tarot card... and does knowing that the legs are making this reference affect me as the reader in any way, or is it just a cute little association to make us go, "oh, that's a glyph for Saturn..."
Beyond the pictoral element, is there a meaningful association between Hanged Man, and the planet Saturn?
P.S. Is Saturn the RWS attribution for the Hanged Man?
I posted a translation ages ago of a tarot reading in the prologue to Tournier's Vendredi ou les limbes du pacifique:Michel Tournier's Reading for Robinson Crusoe in which the Hanged Man is read as Saturn...but it was undoubtedly a reference to a non-RWS deck.
p.p.s. ... just curious. I don't "get" astrology.... I don't understand what the cross references add...but this Saturn / Hanged Man thing does stand out because of the legs...
Beyond the pictoral element, is there a meaningful association between Hanged Man, and the planet Saturn?
P.S. Is Saturn the RWS attribution for the Hanged Man?
I posted a translation ages ago of a tarot reading in the prologue to Tournier's Vendredi ou les limbes du pacifique:Michel Tournier's Reading for Robinson Crusoe in which the Hanged Man is read as Saturn...but it was undoubtedly a reference to a non-RWS deck.
p.p.s. ... just curious. I don't "get" astrology.... I don't understand what the cross references add...but this Saturn / Hanged Man thing does stand out because of the legs...