12 – Hanged Man

Card Number: 12

Card Name: The Hanged Man

Core Attributes

• ✨Astrological Correspondence:✨♆ Neptune
• ✨Element:✨💧 Water
• ✨Direction:✨🧭 North
• ✨Numerology:✨3️⃣ 3
• ✨Archetype:✨🎭 Martyr or Visionary, representing the willingness to endure hardship or suspension to gain a higher understanding.
• ✨Energy:✨⚡ Patience, surrender, and introspection, inviting us to release resistance and embrace new insights.
• Keywords:
  • Upright Keywords for The Hanged Man:
  • Letting go
  • Surrender
  • New perspective
  • Sacrifice
  • Patience
  • Pause
  • Release
  • Reflection
  • Stillness
  • Insight
  • Acceptance
  • Spiritual growth
  • Shifting viewpoints
  • Seeing things differently
  • Delay (for a greater purpose)
  • Reversed Keywords for The Hanged Man:
  • Resistance to change
  • Stagnation
  • Unwillingness to sacrifice
  • Apathy
  • Inaction
  • Lack of perspective
  • Self-imposed restrictions
  • Impatience
  • Feeling stuck
  • Unfinished business
  • Denial
  • Avoiding letting go
  • Frustration with delays
• ✨Basic Meaning:✨📖 In the upright position, The Hanged Man represents surrendering control, pausing to gain new insights, and reflecting to shift one’s perspective. It’s about letting go and embracing stillness for spiritual or personal growth. In the reversed position, it can indicate resistance to necessary changes, feeling stuck, or avoiding the lessons and perspectives that come with waiting or making sacrifices.

Symbols & Associations

• ✨Gemstones:✨💎 Beryl, Aquamarine, Amethyst, Labradorite, Moonstone
• ✨Herbs:✨🌿 Lotus, Water Plants, Kelp, Ivy
• ✨Runes:✨ᚠ Ehwaz, Isa, Perthro, Laguz
• ✨Tree:✨🌳 Yew, Ash, Willow
• ✨Chakras:✨🌀 Third Eye Chakra, Crown Chakra

Cultural and Mythological Links

• ✨Deities:✨👑 Idhunna, Ullr, Odin, Artemis, Osiris, Persephone, Inanna, Ishtar, Buddha
• ✨Sabbats:✨🍎 Mabon
• ✨Archangels:✨👼 Gabriel, Asariel
• ✨Native American Totem Animals:✨🦉 Bat, Zebra, Spider, Snake
• ✨I-Ching:✨📜 12 Pi – Stagnation / Standstill
• ✨Tree of Life:✨🌲Geburah ↔ Hod

Additional Details

✨Timing (When it should come about):✨⏳Undetermined

✨Season:✨🍂 Autumn

✨Month:✨📅 November

✨Day of the Week:✨🗓 Thursday

✨Time of the Day:✨🌞 Twilight (Dusk or Dawn)

✨Yes/No Answer:✨✅❌ Maybe

✨Count:✨#️⃣ 3

✨Color:✨🎨 Dark Blue, Green, Purple

✨Aura:✨🌈 Indigo, Silver, Blue

✨Moon Phase:✨🌙 Waning Crescent Moon

✨Weather:✨⛅ Foggy, misty overcast, drizzling rain, calm.

✨Metal:✨⚙️ Silver, Platinum

✨Scents:✨🌸 Sandalwood, Myrrh, Frankincense

✨Chocolate:✨🍫Licorice Chocolate

✨Candle Type:✨🕯️Floating Candle

✨Common Associations:✨🔗 Wisdom/Studying, Intuition & Divination, Cleansing, Healing, Sleep, Dispelling Negativity, Funerals and Mourning, Depression,

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