The Hanged Man
A color way to bring in this heat of June - the Hanged Man. The Hanged Man card typically displays a man hung upside down, his legs in a figure four pose, suspended from a T-shaped cross made of living wood. His face is calm and serene (perhaps he made the choice to be here) with a halo around his head. His arms are bent, with hands held behind his back, forming an inverted triangle. I once asked a witch I know why I kept pulling the Hanged Man card in a reading and she said yeah, activists and organizers pull this one when they're stuck in burn out. It's the martyr card, after all! (honestly, I felt embarrassed and ending up quitting that job later than year, whoops) Upright, this is a card for pause: what do you have going on? Is there a lack of direction, perspective? Uncertainty? Are you being self-sacrificing? Have you (perhaps unnecessarily) made a martyr of yourself for something? Sometimes you have to put everything on hold before you take the next step (and if you don't do