A pause and a reversal of view. You are stuck because you refuse to see it upside down; surrender opens it.
Stalling, needless sacrifice, or resistance to the shift that would free you.
“THE HANGED MAN.—Wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy. Reversed: Selfishness, the crowd, body politic. 13. DEATH.—End, mortality, destruction, corruption also, for a man, the loss of a benefactor for a woman, many contrarieties; for a maid, failure of marriage projects.…”— Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911
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