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[[File:12 The Hanged Man.png|500px|thumb|Depictions of the Hanged Man from various Tarot decks]] | [[File:12 The Hanged Man.png|500px|thumb|Depictions of the Hanged Man from various Tarot decks]] | ||
'''The Hanged Man''' is the 12th card in the [[Major Arcana]] in most traditional [[Tarot]] decks. | '''The Hanged Man''' is the 12th card in the [[Major Arcana]] in most traditional [[Tarot]] decks. | ||
It is associated with the [[qlippoth]] of [[Ghogiel]] ("The Hinderers") on the [[Kabbalah|Kabbalistic]] [[Tree of Death]]. | |||
==History== | |||
In the 1374 [[trionfi]] poem which inspired the creation of the tarot, Chastity was the name of one of the six original triumphs, which later became The Hanged Man in subsequent tarot decks. | |||
The painting of Chastity depicts a carriage carrying a woman holding a spear and a flag with the image of a lamb. Below her, there is an [[angel]] with its hands bound behind its back. This angel is one of the [[cherubim|cherubs]] from the earlier Love carriage. His arms are tied so he can no longer shoot arrows of love. Among the crowd of onlookers watching the carriage, most people are raising one hand in benediction while the [[Left-hand path|left hand]] is covering their crotch. | |||
In the earliest version of the [[Visconti-Sforza Tarot]], this card depicted a woman chained to the ground with her hands bound together in prayer, trampling a [[demon]] of lust. This version is erroneously identified as "Hope" by most scholars. Subsequent versions modified this theme to a man being hanged for treason or a man tied to a stake on the ground. | |||
==Depiction== | ==Depiction== | ||
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==Symbolism== | ==Symbolism== | ||
The gallows from which he is suspended forms a Tau cross, while the figure— from the position of the legs—forms a hooked cross (a swastika). There is a nimbus around his head in the style of a martyr. It should be noted that the tree of sacrifice is living wood, with leaves thereon; that the face expresses deep entrancement, not suffering; and that the figure, as a whole, suggests life in suspension. | [[File:Chastity Triumph.jpg|300px|thumb|Original triumph of Chastity from ''[[trionfi|I Trionfi]]'']] | ||
The gallows from which he is suspended forms a Tau cross, while the figure— from the position of the legs—forms a hooked cross (a swastika). There is a nimbus around his head in the style of a [[martyr]]. It should be noted that the tree of sacrifice is living wood, with leaves thereon; that the face expresses deep entrancement, not suffering; and that the figure, as a whole, suggests life in suspension. | |||
It is a card of profound significance, but all the significance is veiled. Like the sun placed in the midst of the signs of the Zodiac (six signs on each side represented by the lopped branches), our young hero is suspended between two decisions, from which will spring his spiritual future. This Hanged Man serves for an example to the presumptuous, and his position indicates discipline, the absolute submission which the human owes to the Divine. Divine expansion in humanity is produced by the | It is a card of profound significance, but all the significance is veiled. Like the sun placed in the midst of the signs of the [[Zodiac]] (six signs on each side represented by the lopped branches), our young hero is suspended between two decisions, from which will spring his spiritual future. This Hanged Man serves for an example to the presumptuous, and his position indicates discipline, the absolute submission which the human owes to the Divine. Divine expansion in humanity is produced by the [[prophet]]s and revelation, and this inspires the idea of the revealed law. But the revelation of the law involves punishment for him who violates it, or elevation for him who understands it; and here we find the ideas of punishment, of violent death, voluntary or involuntary. | ||
Astrologically, the card indicates things which we have not yet mastered and those whom we have failed to understand or who have failed to understand us. In the eyes of the world it is the sign of waste, spoil, mishap. Viewed from the other side, the outer world loses its importance or even reality, and the consciousness is opened to inner truth. This is the reversing of consciousness, which makes things change their significance in such a way that they appear to turn upside down: the world is now viewed from the other side. And this is the significance of the hanged man. | [[Astrology|Astrologically]], the card indicates things which we have not yet mastered and those whom we have failed to understand or who have failed to understand us. In the eyes of the world it is the sign of waste, spoil, mishap. Viewed from the other side, the outer world loses its importance or even reality, and the consciousness is opened to inner truth. This is the reversing of consciousness, which makes things change their significance in such a way that they appear to turn upside down: the world is now viewed from the other side. And this is the significance of the hanged man. | ||
===Italian punishment of hanging=== | ===Italian punishment of hanging=== | ||