People: Those who selflessly dedicate themselves to a goal, someone who withdraws from life to meditate, someone who dares to be different, a hospital patient, a spiritual person, a saint.
Situation & Advice: The Hanged man brings a period of sacrifice into your life. You will have to give up something that you once thought was essential for your happiness. You will not suffer agony from this sacrifice, for it will be to achieve a greater good. You may join a group of people who have made similar sacrifices. You need to reevaluate your attitudes, goals, and priorities while remaining true to your spiritual values. You are in a cycle of intense inner growth.
Nothing much seems to be happening on the outside, but you will be filled with a sense of wonder about your life that will be hard to explain to others, and others may not even be able to understand or appreciate your unique perspective.
Now is the time to pause and suspend activity. You need to find peace in the stillness. You know when you have found this peace for you will be calm and unconcerned about usual worries. Many different parts of your life begin to fit together, and you will make new connections. This is a time of healing for you. Music, painting, being in nature (especially by the sea) will all help in the healing process. This is a turning point in your life and you will emerge from this more adaptable, more flexible in you thinking and you'll be able see a way ahead that is more true to you, than you had dreamed.
People: Martyrs, selfish people, as-if personalities, those who define themselves in term of the wishes of others, the uncommitted.
Situation & Advice: The Hanged Man reversed signals the end of a cycle of suffering, sacrifices and indecision. A period of being in limbo or suspension may be coming to an end. You need to tend to matter that have been left hanging or pending for sometime. For some reason you are being untrue to yourself. Perhaps you are sacrificing a part of yourself for no good reason. You may be living up to someone else's expectations and denying your own inner needs and values. Such behavior can only lead futility (useless vain) and a reluctance to commit yourself to a worthwhile goal. You may need to turn your world upside down to achieve enlightenment. Don't squander your energies on useless projects. If you have been able to reset your priorities and rediscover your direction in life, you are now ready for decisive action. Public ridicule, self-punishment and personal humiliation you've experienced recently go by the wayside and disappear.
Reversed the Hanged Man delays himself from the eventual outcome. When this card appears you need to remember that it is ok to let go. You do not need to worry about the past anymore, once you change consciousness, you cant go back there anyway.
