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Learn about the meaning of the tarot card the Hanged Man, including upright and reversed interpretations, plus keywords.
The Hanged Man (XII) is the twelfth Major Arcana card in most traditional tarot decks. It is used in game playing as well as in divination . It depicts a pittura infamante ( pronounced [pitˈtuːra iɱfaˈmante] ), an image of a man being hanged upside-down by one ankle (the only exception being the Tarocco Siciliano , which depicts the man ...
The Hanged Man from Tarot decks is a literal visualization of the mundus inversus, where the natural order of things is overturned. Mundus inversus, Latin for "world upside-down," is a literary topos in which the natural order of things is overturned and social hierarchies are reversed. More generally, it is a symbolic inversion of any sort.
The Hanged Man may refer to: A man who has been hanged; The Hanged Man (Tarot card), Major Arcana Tarot card, also known as "The Traitor" The Hanged Man, a 1997 album by Poisoned Electrick Head "The Hanged Man", song by Moonspell from their 1998 album, Sin/Pecado "The Hanged Man", song by Dark Moor from their 2007 album, Tarot
Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla) at his work table, from the Cours théorique et pratique du livre de Thot (1790).. Etteilla, the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette (1 March 1738 – 12 December 1791), was the French occultist and tarot-researcher, who was the first to develop an interpretation concept for the tarot cards and made a significant contribution to the esoteric development of the ...
The card pictured is the Wheel Of Fortune card from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. A.E. Waite was a key figure in the development of the tarot in line with the Hermetic magical-religious system which was also being developed at the time, [1] and this deck, as well as being in common use today, also forms the basis for a number of other modern ...
The Ten of Swords in the Sola-Busca tarot deck. The Ten of Swords is a Minor Arcana tarot card.. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. [1] In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes.
Early Tarot cards from Italy did not have the names on the cards, people were expected to know them. The practice of putting the name on the cards began with the French card makers. Early Italian texts however, do name the card as "The Traitor" - it was the practice in Italy to hang traitors upside-down in this fashion.