Symbolism
Astrological Glyph: Scorpio 
Hebrew Letter: Nun (Fish; To grow, to sprout, to propagate.)
Color:  Blue-Green 
Golden Dawn Title:  The Child of the Great Transformers, The Lord of the Gate of Death
Keyword: Transformation
Meaning:  Change; an ending, closure, or purging; regeneration, metamorphosis.  Some part of our life has died (career, relationship, living situation, etc.) to allow for something new to come in. 

divineMusings...
The Sun is rising.  Though one could easily say it's setting. For endings & changes are difficult (painful even) times in our life.  However, in Death we transform.  What dies becomes compost for new life.  Science even says that energy never dies.  Ever-transforming, ever-changing, we are eternally cycling through the Law of Transformation. Death's true meaning is in its never-ending movement and transfiguration which is constant with change. It is fear of change, of the unknown, that makes Death an enemy.  A white rose grows from the skeleton's hand.  The skeleton, aka Death, is fertilizing and feeding it new life.  Like when a tree is felled and then new shoots grow from its stump.  Life brings death and death brings life. The Sun may be setting, but it is certainly rising somewhere else.  




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The 3 Symbols from Left to Right: 
1. Water (mirror, reflection, self-reflection) 
2. Neptune (Astrological Planet)
3. the Hebrew Letter, Mem (meaning Water: nourishing, purifying, suspending, protecting, dissolving, reflecting, baptizing) 
Color: Blue
Golden Dawn Title: The Spirit of the Mighty Waters
Keyword: Reversal
Some possible meanings: Surrender and trust. See the world from a different perspective, that is reverse of the "race mind", from a centered or more spiritual position. Unconventional, alternative conduct.  Meditation, contemplation, self-reflection.  Patience & Sacrifice.  Suspension of judgement and of the Manas (Sanskrit meaning personal mental activity, the word man comes from Manas, so the traditional title "the Hanged Man" means to suspend the mind. ). 

divineMusings...
The Hanged One shows us how to suspend judgement of ourselves and others.  We are all One breathing, manifesting, universal being expanding and igniting, ever-changing, ever-moving-forward into nothingness.  Infinitely creating individual sparks from the same source, an eternal source not able to be named for as soon as it is attempted, it changes form.  Releasing the need to always "do",  inviting the pendulum to come to center and in this way finding inner equilibrium.  The capacity to heal, love and restore peace exists here.  The Hanged One knows this and is at ease with the circumstances, accepting even the pain.  Suspend the Manas, suspend the mind, that unquenchable monkey. It has its place but it too must rest.  Clarity comes when we can suspend as the Hanged One does, the Surrendered One…the Suspended One.  We can then reverse our attitude, our thoughts, or situation; thinking in terms of success instead of failure and fear. 




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