Thank you. I still remember a lot of my inspirations for this from when I first wrote it over a year ago.
“I know that I have been hanging from the stormy tree for nine consecutive nights, wounded by the spear, as an offering to Odin: myself offered to myself.” This here is a verse from Hamaval.
Jung later analysed this saying, “hanging . . . has an unmistakable symbolic value, since swinging (hanging and suffering as one swings) is the symbol of unfulfilled longing or tense expectation”
Now the hanged man is the 12th enigma of the tarot pack.
FRAZER, Sir James G. The Golden Bough. London, 1911–15. Here you’ll find analysis that the primitive man kept his god living by keeping him between heaven and earth. A suspension … or mystical isolation.
The inverted position in itself is the symbol of purification as it inverts the natural order.
And so the hanged man hangs from his own doctrine. To which he is so attached he cannot separate himself and his very being hangs upon it.
The hanged man wears red and white. The mystical colors of the two headed eagle of the alchemist. His arms tied with bags of gold coins falling. An allegory for the spiritual treasures to be attained upon self sacrifice.
What I wrote I wanted read exactly as you did. And yet the symbolism on it’s back was supposed to allow you to feel the depth you did notice! Being able to be read as a story and a symbol was vital for me.
I really appreciate your response. Thats basically exactly what I wanted. Thank you.
I have to be careful not to insert politics here bc it’s so much on all of our minds these days (worldwide even). But in any case:
And so the hanged man hangs from his own doctrine. To which he is so attached he cannot separate himself and his very being hangs upon it.
This seems such a profound warning as well as potentially a good time - or rather we think the latter but find ourselves trapped, and freedoms restricted, having less fun than we hoped with it.
Then again, do we truly want to be free, or to go back to sleep in the hammock… or the noose - “a way out of the silence”?
That is brilliant. I will rant on whether we really want to be free another day since I have a lot of thoughts on that too. But that’s a lovely observation
Thank you. I still remember a lot of my inspirations for this from when I first wrote it over a year ago.
“I know that I have been hanging from the stormy tree for nine consecutive nights, wounded by the spear, as an offering to Odin: myself offered to myself.” This here is a verse from Hamaval.
Jung later analysed this saying, “hanging . . . has an unmistakable symbolic value, since swinging (hanging and suffering as one swings) is the symbol of unfulfilled longing or tense expectation”
Now the hanged man is the 12th enigma of the tarot pack.
FRAZER, Sir James G. The Golden Bough. London, 1911–15. Here you’ll find analysis that the primitive man kept his god living by keeping him between heaven and earth. A suspension … or mystical isolation.
The inverted position in itself is the symbol of purification as it inverts the natural order.
And so the hanged man hangs from his own doctrine. To which he is so attached he cannot separate himself and his very being hangs upon it.
The hanged man wears red and white. The mystical colors of the two headed eagle of the alchemist. His arms tied with bags of gold coins falling. An allegory for the spiritual treasures to be attained upon self sacrifice.
What I wrote I wanted read exactly as you did. And yet the symbolism on it’s back was supposed to allow you to feel the depth you did notice! Being able to be read as a story and a symbol was vital for me.
I really appreciate your response. Thats basically exactly what I wanted. Thank you.
I have to be careful not to insert politics here bc it’s so much on all of our minds these days (worldwide even). But in any case:
This seems such a profound warning as well as potentially a good time - or rather we think the latter but find ourselves trapped, and freedoms restricted, having less fun than we hoped with it.
Then again, do we truly want to be free, or to go back to sleep in the hammock… or the noose - “a way out of the silence”?
That is brilliant. I will rant on whether we really want to be free another day since I have a lot of thoughts on that too. But that’s a lovely observation
I am weird. I am always glad when my weirdness helps a few people:-).