The Hanged Man - Tarot Symbolism and The Thing I Think About Every Night

Hi Steemit,

In June it will be two years since I first started learning to read the Tarot. The actual reason why I picked the cards up is interesting enough, but I will save that for another time. The first thing I came to realize is that the symbolism attached to each card was deep, very deep. I am still very much a student, but have a true attachment to the cards and feel that the messages that come to me when I read them are real. A vibrational trueness if you will.

So here's the thing. A few months ago I noticed that when I am sleeping and lay on my back I instinctly bend my left leg and turn it to an angle, putting the bottom of my foot against my right leg. At some point a few weeks ago I thought, "I am the Hanged Man." This happens night after night and this morning I was determined to make some time to look more into this.

I am also the type of person who has a hard time believing in coincidences so follow along because there's a good one coming up.

So I pulled a few books off my shelf and here's what I found regarding the crossed leg.

I love all of these interpretations and have a fondness for the card, feeling kinship with it, being exposed, misunderstood and simply not caring about the opinions of others, especially if they don't know what they're talking about. I have always been the odd outsider, but carried something within me that often made people unsure of what to do with me because, 'he might be right or onto something'. I think my vibe has always been that opinions of others didn't matter and I'm fine if you think I look a fool because I know I'm not. That's how I see the Hanged Man.

He hangs suspended between Heaven and Earth, taking the Middle Path and suggests the birth of the new, balance and inner wisdom--I'll take that!

Yesterday I got a spot on three card reading from @zero-infinity which ended with the Chariot card which tells me I think it's time for me to push myself and my sometimes misunderstood ways a bit harder, more forcefully. You can see that reading HERE.

Now about that 'coincidence' I mentioned earlier. I am a book dealer and picked up a book this morning that I recently acquired, opened it up and low and behold, look what I found on the publishers title page!