"Patience is also a form of action." -Auguste RodinThis is a card about suspension and sacrifice. Sometimes the best thing to do about something is to do nothing at all for the time being. If we can allow ourselves to be serene and surrender to the conditions at hand we give ourselves the chance to receive wisdom and recognize truth. When we are at a cross roads and don’t quite know what to do it is precisely then that we should stop, drop it and hang out. The Hanged Man tells us that when we stop struggling and let go we actually move ourselves father than where we would have gotten trying to force things. It is a time to calm down, slow down and let things just happen instead of interfering. Forget about the outcomes. When we deliberatley accept and put ourselves in a vulnerable position, we will see things in a whole new way. This card tells us to surrender all our hopes, aspirations, and judgments, step back for a bit and trust that the answers and solutions we seek will be revealed in the proper time. It is a time to just BE and not DO. When we are this, we open ourselves to genuine illumination. As for sacrifices, it is giving up something we already hold for something we desire. This change however, is hollow unless there is a balanced objective behind it.
