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 (https://chrisleech.wixsite.com/mysite)
Sally Nichols, Tarot and the Archetypal Journey (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781578636594)
Rachel Pollack, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781578636655)
Yoav Ben-Dov (https://cbdtarot.com/)
Our Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781585421619)
Richard Wagner, ”Sigmund” from [Die Walkure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DieWalk%C3%BCre)_
Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780877282686)
Star Wars
John Frankenheimer (dir.), The Manchurian Candidate (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/)
Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Way of Tarot (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781594772634)
MC Richards, “Preface” to Centering (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780819562005)
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780803298002)
Alan Chapman, Magia (https://www.amazon.com/Magia-Alan-Chapman/dp/180049727X)
Episode 172: Head Over Heels: On the Hanged Man of the Tarot