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The Hanged Man – Key 12: The Inversion of Consciousness and the Descent of the Solar Self

Key 12 is one of the most misunderstood cards in the Western Mysteries. For the true Occultist (the one who seeks the Hidden) and the Qabalist (the one who Receives), this Key is not about passive suffering—it is a diagram of the enlightened reversal of consciousness. The Hanged Man reveals why the world appears inverted to the profane, and how the Adept must invert that inversion to restore the Solar Truth.

In the Thoth Tarot, the Hanged Man is attributed to the Hebrew letter Mem, the Waters. But Mem is not the physical element—these waters are Nun’s ancestral Sea, the Universal Unconscious from which all forms arise. To descend into Mem is to enter the depth-womb of the Collective Unconscious, to penetrate the vast Sea of Potential before form, name, or identity coagulate.

And so, the figure is suspended upside-down, not as a victim but as a Master of Reversal, one who consciously enters the primordial waters to re-encode the psyche.

The Reversal of Thought: “I AM” vs. “Am I?”

The unenlightened multitude lives in a perpetual inversion: they have reversed the Divine Assertion—I AM—into the question—Am I?

This simple reversal is the entire tragedy of human psychology.

Instead of knowing themselves as emanations of the Solar Self (the Tiphareth center), they look outward into the mirror of coagulated light—what the Mysteries call the reflected world—and ask the world to define them. They cling to manmade rules, social hypnosis, and false personality masks while ignoring the Cosmic Law that governs all manifestation.

Key 12 exposes this inversion. The Hanged Man hangs from the Ankh, the Tau-Cross of Life, reminding us that what is above appears reversed below. Unless one inverts the inversion, one remains trapped in the hall of mirrors.

Suspending the Mind: Samadhi and the Western Path of Mem

Another profound layer of this Key is the suspension of the rational, grasping mind. Yogis call this Samadhi, though the English language has no equivalent. In Samadhi, the meditator dissolves into the object of meditation. Subject becomes object. Observer becomes observed. Light perceives itself.

The Hanged Man illustrates the Western esoteric form of this same state.

Here, consciousness is turned inward and upward, spiraling down from the Astral depths into the waking mind. This is why the card shows the halo of Solar radiance around the head—the Adept has aligned with the “Sun behind the Sun,” the True Self, the Solar Soul in Tiphareth.

This reversal isn’t confusion—it is Illumination.
It is the moment where what you once thought yourself to be dissolves in the waters of Mem and is offered up to the Greater Self.

The Sacrifice of the Lesser Self: Birth of the Divine Androgyne

In Hermetic doctrine, the Hanged Man represents the action of the Greater Self upon the Lesser. The Solar Child—the Son/Sun of the Supernal Triad—has reconciled the dual polarities of Mother and Father within himself. This union is not symbolic but alchemical: the creation of the Divine Hermaphrodite, the 0=2 that becomes 1.

To achieve this, the Lesser Self must be suspended, stripped, and sacrificed. The personal identity, with all its conditioned reactions and inherited fears, is surrendered to the Solar Identity. This is the “dying before you die,” known to every Mystery school from Egypt to Eleusis.

In the Thoth system, Key 12 is one of the four archetypes of the Greater Self:

• The Magus (Beth) – the Word of Will

• The Lovers (Zain) – the union of opposites

• The Sun (Resh) – the perfected Solar identity

• The Hanged Man (Mem) – the sacrifice that births the Redeemer

Together they chart the journey of the Soul from its Divine origin to its earthly incarnation and back again.

The Hanged Man as the Solar Self Descending into Matter

At the highest level, this card is a statement about what you are—beyond flesh, name, and biography.

You are the Plasmic Solar Entity, the radiant Soul streaming from Tiphareth and clothed in the Waters of Mem. You are the descent of the Sun into the world of reflection, consenting to enter form so that form may one day return to Light.

The Hanged Man is the memory of that descent, the moment the Soul chooses incarnation, inversion, limitation—and through that sacrifice, becomes the Redeemer.

It is the card of the Initiate who no longer imagines themselves to be the personality but recognizes themselves as the Solar Flame animating the personality.

Suspension becomes liberation.
Inversion becomes illumination.
Death of the false identity becomes birth of the True One.

In modern Western Hermetic–Qabalistic Tarot, the Universal Element attributed to Key 12 is the Hebrew letter Mem, the Great Waters. These are not physical waters, but the “First Mirror”—the primordial medium where the I AM first beholds its own reflection. Water reverses what it receives, and this inversion is a central mystery of the Hanged Man. The images arising in Mem originate in Air (Ruach/Intellect), and as they descend into the Waters they are flipped, refracted, and re-presented. Thus, Key 12 symbolizes Life reflected as image, Spirit mirrored into form, Consciousness appearing as personality.

In Qabalistic doctrine, the Waters of Mem are the Cosmic Substance, the amniotic essence of Mother Binah, She who is called the Great Sea. This is the generative womb from which all archetypes crystallize into structure. The Hanged Man hangs within this Sea of the Supernal Mother, suspended in the osmotic medium through which the Higher Self presses into incarnation. Carl Jung approached the same mystery from a psychological vantage, calling this Sea the Universal Collective Unconscious, the field of inherited symbols and primordial memory. The Occultist recognizes that these waters are not merely psychic—they are metaphysical, the very mirror wherein the Divine beholds Itself as Becoming.

I have already mentioned that the Hanged Man represents "Suspended Mind", the occultist that invented the TAROT, (Before Latin became the Patriarchies official language) knew that man and mind come from the same Sanskrit root word-Manas. The title also refers to the utter dependance of human personality upon the Mental Cosmic Life.

The Art of the Rider-Waite-Smith-Key 12 features the human figure hanging from a Tau (T) cross made of living wood which symbolizes the Cosmic Life. The image is pointing out that his left foot is unbound bringing wisdom to the hanged man and advises him that the time to act is now.

The iconography of the Hanged Man has evolved slowly through the centuries, each stage preserving a fragment of the deeper mystery behind Key 12. In early Renaissance and Gothic decks, the figure was often shown hanging upside-down while holding bags of silver—an unmistakable echo of Judas, shaped by the moralized lens of Gothic Humanism, where the card served as an allegory of avarice and the consequences of betrayal. As Tarot imagery matured, this motif shifted into the punitive symbolism of medieval justice: a knight or traitor hung by one foot, a known form of public humiliation for cowardice or dishonor.

By the 18th and 19th centuries, esoteric commentators—now unbound from medieval moralism—began connecting this suspended figure with the archetype of the Dying-and-Resurrected god: Odin hanging upon Yggdrasil to win the runes, Christ upon the Tree of Sacrifice, Attis, Mithras, Dionysus, and the perennial Wheel of solar deities who “die” to rise renewed. This shift was crucial, for it reoriented the card away from punishment and toward Initiatic Sacrifice, the voluntary surrender of the lower self for the birth of the Higher.

Yet beneath all these layers lies the true Hermetic revelation: we are Light suspended in Matter—Plasmic Intelligence crystallized into form. The “hanging” is not a condemnation but a consent. The Soul chooses incarnation. The Solar Self willingly descends into the dense lattice of physicality, binding Itself to the crystalline plasma we call the body, so that Consciousness may experience, reflect, and evolve.

The Hanged Man is therefore not a victim but a Volunteer—one who has agreed to experience inversion so that illumination may occur. Every layer of historical imagery hints at this same truth: Spirit hangs itself upon the Tree of Life to awaken within the world of reflection.

The Hanged Man of Tarot displays the radiant crown-chakra halo—the Sun of the Self shining through the inverted figure. This does not merely signify holiness; it reveals that the Solar Consciousness has broken through the crust of the personality and is now illuminating the descent into the deeper strata of being. The figure’s suspended foot is anchored in the upper, unconscious realm, showing that the source of this inversion is not external misfortune but an interior act of Soul. The Adept is “hung” from the Higher Self, not from the world.

This posture reveals a profound truth: experience is generated by the conversation between the conscious and the unconscious. The waking mind receives waves of insight, dream-symbols, ancestral memory, and instinctual intelligence from the depths of the Unconscious. The body becomes the mediator of this process, for it is the instrument that turns thought into “in-form-action”—a literal enfleshment of consciousness. All experience arises from this oscillation between inner and outer, Above and Below.

In some decks, especially the Rider–Waite–Smith, the coiled serpentine rope around the figure’s foot alludes to the Kundalini force. This is not an accidental embellishment but an esoteric hint: the Serpent Fire initiates the inversion of consciousness. When Kundalini rises, the polarity of perception flips—the personal self is no longer experienced as the center, but as the vehicle of the Greater Self. The Hanged Man represents that threshold where the Serpent has reached the crown, the light has opened, and the descent of illumination begins.

Thus Key 12 is the diagram of a psychic “circuit reversal”:
the Higher Self descends, the lower self surrenders, and consciousness is turned inside-out, revealing its Solar origin.

Kundalini is best understood as the Cosmic Vital Sexual Force—the same primordial current that births stars, worlds, and Souls. It is the Serpentine ascent of Plasma-Electric and Magnetic Fire, the living Current of Life that coils at the root and spirals upward through the subtle centers. This is not a metaphor: in Hermetic language, Kundalini is the inner Sun, the latent stellar engine within the human temple. It is the microcosmic echo of the macrocosmic Serpent of Creation, the force that both creates and dissolves forms.

Because this current is the Architect of all manifestation, it cannot be approached casually. In the untrained, untempered psyche, Kundalini does not illuminate—it destabilizes. Without the proper vessel—disciplined mind, strengthened nervous system, balanced psyche, and a purified astral field—the rising Serpent burns away the structures that maintain identity and coherence. This is why every Mystery School, from the Tantric to the Hermetic, teaches that the Serpent Fire must be awakened only through alignment, not force.

In the context of the Hanged Man, this Serpentine Flame is the power that inverts the circuit of consciousness. It is the Kundalini that pierces the crown, ignites the Solar Halo, and reveals the deeper truth of Key 12: Enlightenment is not an achievement—it is the overturning of the lesser self by the Greater Self, through the agency of the Serpentine Fire.

In both the Rider–Waite–Smith deck and the Triple Goddess Tarot, the crossed legs of the Hanged Man deliberately form the inverted glyph of Jupiter, the planet of benevolence, expansion, and divine favor. This is not decorative—it encodes the subtle doctrine of Chesed, the 4th Sephirah on the Tree of Life, whose planetary attribution is Jupiter. Chesed is Mercy, Grace, the great outpouring of the Divine toward its creation.

Thus even in the midst of inversion, sacrifice, and suspension, the Hanged Man’s body proclaims that the deeper pattern of this state is mercy—not suffering. The descent into the Waters of Mem is not punitive but compassionate; it is the Soul’s own benevolence guiding the personality into surrender, stillness, and interior re-alignment.

This Jupiterian signature supports one of the central truths of Key 12:
true peace cannot be imposed from without; it arises from the harmony established within.
The inversion of the Hanged Man quiets the turbulence of the surface mind, allowing the Mercy of Chesed to flow downward through the Middle Pillar and permeate the psyche. This infusion of Jupiter’s grace is what enables the Adept to rest in the calm, luminous suspension depicted in the card. The peace is not circumstantial—it is ontological, radiating from the Solar Self and received by the surrendered ego.

In this way, the Hanged Man reveals that inner peace is not something attained through control or force, but something bestowed when the personal will yields to the Greater Will. In surrender, Jupiter’s mercy descends; in stillness, the Soul reveals its peace.

In the Triple Goddess Tarot – Key 12, the Hanged Man is surrounded by an unexpected profusion of crystals, mushrooms, and fertile plant growth at the crown of his suspended form. This imagery is deliberate: these organic and mineral symbols represent the cultivation of multiple perspectives, the inner ecosystem of insights that emerges when one willingly enters the state of inversion. Crystals signify structural clarity; mushrooms signify transformation and decomposition of old patterns; plant growth symbolizes renewal.

The Triple Goddess Hanged Man rests in serene composure—a figure who has discovered inner Zen within an apparently strange or unnatural position. Yet this “strangeness” reflects a fundamental Hermetic truth: we are already inverted beings. Our feet, symbolizing our grounding and true origin, are rooted not in the physical world but in the Celestial Plasma Realms of Akasha. Meanwhile, our head—our waking intelligence—is projected downward into the dense world of Malkuth/Earth through the avataric human body.

We are Spirit suspended in Matter, Light descending into form. Thus the Hanged Man becomes an image of our actual metaphysical posture: inverted to the world, but upright in the Divine.

The Triple Goddess depiction quietly reminds the aspirant that enlightenment is not achieved by wrestling with the world, but by surrendering the personality to the deeper architecture of Being. When we stop struggling against circumstance, our roots in the higher Akashic strata can nourish the personal mind. New perspectives crystallize, old patterns decompose, and the inner landscape flourishes.

In this sense, Key 12 is not a card of passivity—it is a card of profound interior alignment, where the Master learns to let the Celestial Self inform the Earthly self, and where inversion becomes illumination.

Comparative Hermetic Synthesis: RWS Hanged Man & Triple Goddess Hanged Man

Although both the Rider–Waite–Smith and the Triple Goddess Tarot depict the Hanged Man in a suspended, inverted posture, each deck emphasizes different layers of the Key’s initiatory truth. Together they form a complete teaching: one represents the inner mechanism of inversion, while the other represents the inner harvest that inversion produces.

1. Posture & the Inverted Jupiter–Chesed Formula

Both decks preserve the classic leg-crossing that forms the upside-down glyph of Jupiter, the planet of mercy and divine favor—corresponding to Chesed, the 4th Sephirah.

• RWS: The Jupiter glyph is crisp and geometric, showing the Hanged Man’s posture as a conscious formula of Mercy.

• Triple Goddess: The same posture is present, but softened by nature imagery, emphasizing that this mercy manifests organically through inner growth and surrender.

Meaning:
The Adept receives peace not from worldly circumstances, but from the descending grace of the Higher Self. Inversion opens the channel of Chesed through the Middle Pillar.

2. The Halo vs. the Ecological Crown

Both decks illuminate the head, but with different symbolic environments:

RWS: Solar Halo / Crown Chakra Activation

The RWS places a radiant halo around the head—symbolizing enlightenment, crown activation, and the triumphant break-through of the Solar Self. It shows that consciousness has already been inverted: the Light of Tiphareth is shining downward into the personality.

Triple Goddess: Crystals, Mushrooms, Plant Growth

Here, the “halo” becomes a fertile ecosystem:

• Crystals – structured clarity

• Mushrooms – decomposition of the old psyche

• Plants – renewal and growth

This imagery reveals the result of inversion: interior cultivation, new perspectives, and the blossoming of insight.

Meaning:
RWS shows the descent of illumination,
while Triple Goddess shows the fruits of surrender once illumination takes root.

3. The Hanging Medium: Rope vs. Great Tree

RWS: Serpentine Rope – Kundalini as the Mechanism

The rope around the foot coils like a serpent, hinting at Kundalini, the Cosmic Vital Sexual Force. Here the emphasis is on what causes the inversion: the Serpent Fire rising and turning consciousness inside-out.

Triple Goddess: World Tree – Nature as the Context

The Hanged Man is suspended from a great Tree—the axis mundi, the living pillar linking Earth and Star. The focus is on where inversion happens: within the great cycle of nature, birth, death, and renewal.

Meaning:
RWS depicts the mechanism of spiritual reversal,
Triple Goddess depicts the world in which that reversal reveals its wisdom.

4. Expression & Psychological Tone

RWS:

The figure is serene but solemn—reflecting the interior withdrawal required for enlightenment. The focus is on discipline: stillness, surrender, and acceptance.

Triple Goddess:

The figure radiates a softer, Zen-like peace, surrounded by symbols of fungal and crystalline intelligence, suggesting that enlightenment is participatory, growing through humility and openness.

Meaning:
RWS expresses the intellectual discipline of inversion.
Triple Goddess expresses the emotional and ecological harmony of inversion.

5. Esoteric Interpretation: Two Halves of the Same Initiation

• RWS is about the moment of inversion—the vertical flip of consciousness when the Higher Self seizes the reins of the Lower.

• Triple Goddess is about the life lived after inversion—the inner cultivation, insight, and wisdom that follow the surrender.

Together they reveal the complete Path of Mem:

1. Suspend the ego (RWS)

2. Let the Serpent Fire open the Crown (RWS)

3. Allow the New Perspective to germinate (Triple Goddess)

4. Become a fertile ground for illumination (Triple Goddess)

The two decks are not contradictory—they are complementary vantage points of the same process. One shows the inversion of consciousness, the other the ecology of transformation that arises from it.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

-Robert Fritz

In The Tarot, Dr. Paul Foster Case observes that “the head of the Hanged Man is… LVX, in manifestation as the Logos.” The halo—the golden radiance around the inverted figure—does not merely indicate sanctity; it is the shining forth of the Solar Word, the Light that speaks existence into form. LVX is the Hermetic Light, the Lux named in the Rosicrucian formula “LVX: the Light of the Cross.” Its manifestation around the head signifies the Logos incarnate, the divine intelligence made visible in the world of reflection.

Case goes further, noting that L, V, and X have the numerical values 50, 5, and 10, which total 65—the number of ADNI (Adonai), the Hebrew title meaning “Lord.” In Qabalistic tradition, 65 is the number of the Holy Guardian Angel, the indwelling Divine Self. Thus, the halo around the Hanged Man signals identity with the Inner Lord, the Adonai that the aspirant meets in the heart of Tiphareth. This ties the Hanged Man symbolically to both the Emperor (Heh) and the Hermit (Yod), for each is a face of the Solar Light: one structuring it, the other guiding it.

Hermetically, this Light is expressed by the esoteric formula IHShVH—Yod-Heh-Shin-Vav-Heh—the Pentagrammaton. When the Shin (Spirit-Fire) is placed in the center of the Tetragrammaton, the Word becomes Flesh. Hence, IHShVH is the inner mystery behind the name “Yehoshua” (Joshua), from which the Greek “Jesus” is derived. This is not religious doctrine but metaphysical anatomy: the descent of Spirit into form as the perfected expression of the Solar Soul.

This teaching is only of use to the student who has traveled far enough along the admonition: “Above all things, know thyself.” The Hanged Man is not the beginner of the Path; he is one who has experienced the turning inside-out of identity.

The Mundane Reflection: Humanity Upside-Down

From the mundane vantage, the card is a human soul turned upside-down, inverted relative to how we normally perceive others. In Qabalah, to be “upright” means alignment with the Esoteric Law of Love, the law that flows from Chesed and governs the true movements of the Soul. But most people operate under the lesser law—fear, reaction, survival, and social hypnosis. The upright person appears inverted to them, just as the Hanged Man appears reversed to the uninitiated eye.

This is why Jacob Boehme, the mystic philosopher, taught that the spiritual person must “walk in all things contrary to the world.” Not because one defies society for its own sake, but because the inner laws of the Soul run opposite to the outer laws of the ego. The world moves from fear toward control; the Initiate moves from surrender toward liberation. The world clings; the Initiate releases. The world grasps for definition; the Initiate dissolves into Light.

Thus, the Hanged Man’s inversion symbolizes the Adept who has aligned with Love instead of fear, Spirit instead of form, the Solar Law instead of the social law.

To the world, such a one looks upside-down.
To the Soul, such a one has finally been turned right-side-up.

Some readers may initially interpret this perspective as antagonistic, but it is anything but. To look honestly at the environment of modern life is to see that most people are caught in an emotional quagmire—a self-absorbed maze of fear, especially the primal fear of abandonment, rejection, and inadequacy. These fears are not innate; they are stimulated, reinforced, and weaponized by the hypnotic suggestions of a patriarchal media structure that thrives on insecurity. This is the very “word hypnosis” that the Mysteries warn about: language used not to liberate but to bind.

Because of this constant psychic agitation, many people are not living in the world—they are living in their mindscape, a troubled inner echo chamber shaped by fear-based narratives. Their consciousness becomes inverted, not in the enlightened sense of the Hanged Man, but in the reactive sense of being turned away from the Soul and toward external approval, external validation, and external control.

When the inner landscape is governed by fear rather than the Solar Law of Love, it becomes nearly impossible to have a harmonious relationship with oneself, let alone with others or with the world. The true inversion, in the Hermetic sense, is the return to inner sovereignty. The false inversion is the state most people are in today: upside-down within themselves but convinced they are standing upright.

Thus the Hanged Man is not antagonistic—it is diagnostic.
It shows what happens when consciousness is ruled from Above, and what happens when it is ruled from below.
It reveals the difference between alignment and manipulation, between Soul-led inversion and ego-led confusion.

The path of Key 12 is therefore not a critique of humanity—it is an invitation for humanity to turn itself right-side-up again.

The False Ego: A Parasite of the Unawakened Soul

It becomes increasingly clear, especially through the lens of Hermetic Qabalah, that many individuals have inverted the natural hierarchy of Being. Instead of the Higher Self—the Solar I AM—steering the vehicle of the personality, the false ego has seized the reins. This counterfeit identity is not the true Self but a psychic simulacrum, a construct generated by unexamined conditioning, generational fear, and the hypnotic repetition of societal narratives.

In the Western Mysteries, this false ego is understood as an anti-life formation, a kind of astral parasite that arises when the personality becomes severed from the Light of Tiphareth. It is not a real entity but a pattern of misidentification, a self-replicating knot of fear whose only defense is the illusion that it is “you.” This pseudo-self survives through deception—by convincing the host consciousness that its limitations are natural, its anxieties justified, and its worldview accurate.

Cloaked in the language of self-preservation, judgment, and control, the false ego becomes the internal narrator of scarcity and separation. It tells a story built on:

• lack (“I do not have enough”),

• division (“I am separate from others”),

• unworthiness (“I am not enough”),

• threat (“Everything is against me”),

• shame (“I must hide my truth”),

• abandonment (“I will be left if I am myself”).

These are not the thoughts of the Soul—they are the whispers of the fear-constructed avatar pretending to be the Self.

From the Qabalistic perspective, this false ego is the inverted reflection that forms when consciousness becomes trapped entirely in the lower Nephesh (instinctive self) without illumination from the Ruach (reasoning self) and without guidance from the Neshamah (Higher Self). It is literally the “Hanged Man” in his unredeemed state—inverted, disoriented, and unaware that his true roots lie Above.

The awakened state, which Key 12 symbolizes, occurs when the true I AM reclaims its throne and the pseudo-self is unmasked. The Light returns to its center, and the parasite dissolves in the radiance of recognition.

Only the Soul can say “I AM.”
Everything else is imitation.

The Solar Individual, aligned with the harmony of the Higher Will, recognizes the false ego not as a flaw, but as a test of initiation. For it is only in transcending this counterfeit self that the true Magus emerges. The ego, then purified, becomes the servant rather than the master of the Soul.

In numerology, the number 12 is often considered a powerful and harmonious number. It is associated with completeness, wholeness, and perfection. Here are some key characteristics attributed to the number 12 in numerology:

1. Completeness: The number 12 is seen as a complete cycle, representing the twelve months in a year, the twelve zodiac signs, and the twelve hours on a clock.

2. Harmony: It is considered a harmonious number, symbolizing balance and order. Many systems of knowledge, including astrology and ancient cultures, have revered the number 12 for its sense of balance.

3. Divine Order: In various spiritual traditions, the number 12 is often linked to divine order and alignment with cosmic principles. It signifies a connection to higher realms.

Now, in Gematria, where each letter of the alphabet is assigned a numerical value, the number 12 can be explored through the sum of the values of its corresponding letters. However, as Gematria typically applies to words or phrases, it's essential to specify the context or word you'd like to analyze in order to provide a more detailed interpretation.

Free, upright people know they are the Light of the Logos, Images of the Divine Creative, and that we incarcerate or free our own Selves as we Perceive ourselves to be. This is the knowledge behind the axiom of "Above all things, know thyself". Hence, the Hanged Man is also a card that implies a change of Self- perspective.

Some may see a "free choice" as a victory, over the mind virus of the "false ego", but in all instances of wisdom it is "total surrender". For as soon as the truth of Self is realized, total surrender is the only logical and sensible course of action as it is submission of personal consciousness to the direction of the Universal Mind of Love.

The Magician/Magus, foreshadows this submission by pointing his wand to the above, "stating Thy Will not My will". Paradoxically, this total submission of personal life to Life Itself, makes us intensely positive in our view of others. For now, we see them as "anothers", i.e., "Everyone I see, is Another way to be me". Anybody who fails to follow this course of "another", will become a human doormat.

Once we know ourselves to be vehicles to a power in which there are no insurmountable obstacles; I AM-Spirit-Mind-Body, which is another description of the trinity of "Supreme Being" and/or the True Ego.

Therefore, the idea presented by the Awakening or the Hanged Man-Key 12, is that mental attitude of "thy will not my will". This attitude comes from the understanding that our will is an elusive mask of words, plastered on our identity by "the false will of outside authority". Only "I AM" is our author. "Me" must become the "Will of the One I AM". Therefore, I (identity) Am (mind) Me (the assumption of "what I am"), must become One Will and One Way to enact that Will. "I AM", is the Truth, but what I am is an assumption of free will, a will that is only free, when one Knows themselves!

When thrown in a divination, The Hanged Man or Awakening-Key 12- implies:

• The instinct of sacrifice and devotion.
• Overcoming the ego.
• Changing one's ways.
• Redemption.
• Maturity.
• Finding Wisdom.
• The redemptive absorption (Surrendering to the One Will).

If reversed:

• At a Standstill.
• Being stuck hanging in the air.
• Not seeing any purpose in life.
• Resistance and self-sacrifice.

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