The Hanged Man and Death
I hope you enjoyed your session with The Wheel of Fortune and Justice. In this session we move into a new energy with the Hanged Man.
The Hanged Man is hanging upside down by one leg on a wooden T bar. He is not struggling, he seems to be completely at peace and surrendered to his predicament. In this card we learn to be in bliss in any situation.
Our next card is card thirteen, Death. It is one of the most feared cards in the tarot, but only because of our misunderstanding of death in Western culture. Death is part of nature, it is natural and normal, it is part of living. In this card different parts of our psyche react to Death’s arrival in different ways. The trick is to welcome Death and all it has to offer to allow for the regrowth that always comes after death has visited. The meditation in this session will help you to cultivate a new relationship with death. I hope you enjoy it.
Below are some notes for you to use as a quick reference if you draw these cards and your spiritual practices related to the card. Feel free to do all the recommended practices for each card or if you prefer to focus on one card per week then choose the one which is most calling you and do the spiritual practices for that card only.
The Hanged Man
The main themes for The Hanged Man are:
- New Perspective
- Surrender
- Calm in the midst of chaos
- Enlightenment
- Being suspended in time, in a state of bliss
- Letting go of old ways of being and thinking
- Do something that takes you out of your everyday life and way of being and thinking
Spiritual Practices and Contemplations for this card:
- Meditate on acceptance and surrender. What do I need to surrender?
- Do something that takes you out of your everyday life and way of being and thinking. Make space for new perspectives.
Death
The main themes for Death are:
- Transformation and change
- Endings – and new beginnings
- Immortality of the soul
- Finding the beauty in death
- Letting go
- Death of old habits and ways of thinking and being
Spiritual Practices and Contemplations are:
- What needs to “die” in my world for me to move closer to God?
- What instinctive behaviours or addictions are not serving me and are usurping my will? (Netzach).
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