What does The Hanged Man mean reversed?

The Thoth Tarot is traditionally read without reversed cards: the reader judges from the cards around it whether a card is well or ill dignified. This is its ill-dignified or blocked reading: Sacrifice that is imposed or dragged out beyond what is necessary; resistance to changing your point of view, a feeling of being trapped.

What are the Kabbalah and astrology correspondences of The Hanged Man?

In the Golden Dawn system The Hanged Man corresponds to the Hebrew letter Mem, path 23 of the Tree of Life between Geburah and Hod, the element Water and Water in astrology.

Thoth Tarot · Major Arcana

The Hanged Man

sacrifice · surrender · suspension · reversal · redemption

A reflective starting point

What is The Hanged Man asking you to look at?

Meaning changes with the position, the surrounding cards and your question. Take what follows as a language, not a verdict.

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Upright

Let go of control and look at the situation from another angle; a conscious renunciation can open the way.

At first sight

Sacrifice, waiting, suspension, voluntary renunciation for the sake of a greater good. It points to a stuck situation that asks for a change of perspective.

Within you

It represents the ego's surrender before what it cannot control; the overturning of values that precedes a new understanding.

On the path

Path 23 from Geburah to Hod, the letter Mem (water, 40) and elemental Water: the baptismal immersion in which individual form dissolves. It is the formula of the sacrificed god, belonging to the previous Aeon.

The shadow

Ill-dignified, it signals victimhood, pointless sacrifice, passivity, a stalemate without meaning.

Reversed

In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.

Sacrifice that is imposed or dragged out beyond what is necessary; resistance to changing your point of view, a feeling of being trapped.

In love, work and spirit

Love. Renunciations and waiting; watch relationships in which you give without receiving.

Work. Suspended projects and delays; a time to rethink methods and priorities.

Spirit. The surrender of the ego as an offering; immersion in the waters of transformation.

Correspondences

Mem מ · path 23 (Geburah – Hod) · Water · Water

Crowley's note

For Crowley the Hanged Man expresses the formula of Osiris, the god who dies in order to rise again, which the new Aeon considers outdated: the man hangs from an ankh, nailed to a green grid, with a serpent at his feet announcing new life.