Episode 172: Head Over Heels: On the Hanged Man of the Tarot

The Hanged Man is arguably the most enigmatic card in the traditional tarot deck. Divested of any archetypal apparel – he is neither emperor nor fool, but just a man, who happens to be hanging – he gazes back at us with the look of one who harbors a secret. But what sort of secret? In this episode, JF and Phil discuss the card that no less august a personage than A.E. Waite, co-creator of the classic Rider-Waite deck, claimed was beyond all understanding.

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REREFENCES

Welkin/Gnostic Tarot (chrisleech.wixsite.com/mysite)

Sally Nichols, Tarot and the Archetypal Journey (bookshop.org/a/18799/9781578636594)

Rachel Pollack, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom (bookshop.org/a/18799/9781578636655)

Yoav Ben-Dov (cbdtarot.com)

Our Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot (bookshop.org/a/18799/9781585421619)

Richard Wagner, ”Sigmund” from Die Walkure (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Walk%C3%BCre)

Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780877282686)

Star Wars

John Frankenheimer (dir.), The Manchurian Candidate (imdb.com/title/tt0056218)

Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Way of Tarot (bookshop.org/a/18799/9781594772634)

MC Richards, “Preface” to Centering (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780819562005)

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780803298002)

Alan Chapman, amazon.com/Magia-Alan-Chapman/dp/180049727X

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