In order to make it correspond more closely to the Flammarion engraving, I used the mirror image of the Tarot card, as is obvious if you look at the Roman numeral at the top: IIIV. Seeing this image again reminded me that some old Marseille-pattern Tarot cards actually printed a certain Roman numeral in mirror image on purpose, giving the Hanged Man the number IIX instead of XII. The reasons for this are obscure, but it is generally thought to have something to do with the figure's upside-downness.
Looking through my Tarot de Marseille files to find examples of this, I unexpectedly found something else: Here is the Hanged Man card from the deck printed by François Héri in Solothurn, Switzerland, in 1718:
Besides being numbered IIX, this card has a red shoe on the Hanged Man's right foot and a blue shoe on his left. This is quite unusual. I have 20 Marseille-pattern Hanged Man cards in my files, of which only 6 have mirror-image numerals. Of the 20 cards, 15 give the Hanged Man two red shoes, and 4 give him matching shoes of another color (blue or tan). Only Héri gives him mismatched shoes -- and he just happened to choose the correct colors and put them on the correct feet.
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The Hanged Man is interesting. The biblical account says that Judas Iscariot went and hanged himself after he betrayed Jesus, with the Acts of the Apostles adding the strange detail that he fell "headlong":
"Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out"
The physics of falling with one's head first would suggest an upside-down hanging.
Although, hanging, I guess, used to refer very specifically to crucifixion, and tradition has it that Peter was crucified upside-down.
A "hanged" man can also refer to someone who has been suspended. Suspend, when referring to a person, can mean "bar or exclude temporarily from some function or privilege", and also to "remove from office", or even "to hold undetermined, or to refrain from concluding".
The earliest documented name for the Hanged Man card is "The Traitor." Apparently they used to punish traitors that way in parts of Italy. Some old decks also show coins falling out of the Hanged Man's pockets, which could be another link to Judas.
Marseille-pattern Tower cards show someone falling headlong from the lightning-struck Tower, and several old decks give this figure mismatched shoes, too (yellow and blue). As far as I am aware, the Hanged Man and the Tower are the only Marseille-pattern cards that sometimes feature mismatched shoes.
William,
From a metaphysical lens and IMHO,
When our soul 'falls down' to this duality dimension,
it sacrifices itself, much like the fish.
The biggest sacrifice of the soul
is having to be 'inCARcerated'
in a physical heavy body ( the body being
a Vehicle that takes us from point A
to point B in this physical 'matter') which may explain
why the Russian guitarist Sergey
in the Leonid and Friends band, wore the Penn State
T shirt on the Vehicle video.
A state pen is being in a state of imprisonment or captivity.
I have been following Leonid and Friends for several
years on YouTube. Sergey played with them in the beginning.
Before I wrote this comment I looked at several
of the videos with Sergey
and I didn't see him wearing mismatched shoes
in any other video performance except Vehicle.
Pisces the fish ( the 2 fish swimming in opposite
directions ) is symbolic of sacrifice and/or service.
The astrological sign Pisces rules
the feet.
The hanged man on the Tarot card is hung by his feet,
not by his neck.
His legs are crossed. An X or cross has 4 points.
X is Osiris Rising.
The hanged man is hanging between 2 pillars. 11.
The pillar colors are yellow and red which are
Man Overboard colors.
Twin Towers.
And speaking of Twin Towers and the hanging man,
I don't know if you've ever seen the iconic photo
of the falling man from the south Tower on Sept 11, 2001,
but check it out. Link below.
I recall when I first saw the falling man image
on the many news reports in 2001, my first thought was
the man looked exactly like the Tarot card, The Hanged
Man.
Coincidence ya think?
Recall I shared that my sister read the Tarot
cards back in the 1970's.
I personally didn't have interest in that part
of the metaphysical and didn't study it
like she did, but I was aware of the Tarot.
It was because of my 2021 Tulip dream is how
I found Oswald Wirth and of course how I found
you, so I do acknowledge the Tarot as a power source
in this duality dimension.
I believe all of the red and blue syncs are symbolic of duality
as is the Freemason black and white checkerboard floor.
Big picture :I believe that humanity is on the precipice of
the intercourse of the Alchemical Wedding between
the Rubedo/Golden/ Sun/Sulfur King and the White/Blue/
Mercury Moon Queen, to produce the ONE. The REBIS.
The ONE Tower in NYC is on the 40 Lat and 77 ( actual 74) long.
The EL's follow the 40, because it's the doorway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_World_Trade_Center
(note the color blue ) Scroll down to the photo
which reads: One World Trade Center from West Street.
See the pyramid?
The old Twin Towers design incorporated Neptune's Trident.
Neptune is the ruling planet of Pisces.
Big picture :
I believe that humanity is shifting ages from the Age of Pisces
to the Age of Aquarius aka The Great Reset.
Ganymede ( the PRETTI boy ) is the cup bearer and associated
with Aquarius. The Female is the cup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Man
https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/wtcs-steel-tridents-are-returning-ground-zero-updated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_World_Trade_Center
AQUARIUS MYTHOLOGY. Zeus, Ganymede and Hebe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eVYTv13xxM&t=1s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebis
William,
Correction. The Falling ( hanged ) Man fell from the North
Tower, not the South.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North
William,
As I was doing a bit more research on Ganymede
I noticed that Ganymede 'wears' a
Phrygian Cap which of course caught my attention because
in my 2018 Oscar dream, Oscar was wearing a Phrygian Cap
as I commented about many many times.
Do note that I absolutely did Not know what a Phrygian
Cap was before the Oscar dream.
In the dream Oscar's hat was rust color red and it was
what I guess would in modern times be described
as a beanie cap.
Right after the dream I googled
White man, red wool hat, red hair Switzerland and
at that time in 2018, that illustration that
I've linked in my previous comments about
Oscar came up( relinked below )
which was the only reason how I learned
what a Phrygian Cap was.
Today while researching more of the Phrygian
Cap ( because it has connections with Ganymede)
I also noticed something else that caught
my eye which is this,
copy and paste:
"The oldest known depiction of the Phrygian cap
is from Persepolis in Iran."
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When I read that I thought: hmmmm, that's odd
another connection to Tulips.
And of course Iran is currently
on the world stage and I believe in
the not too distant future, very prominently
on the world stage.
Donald Trump is Israel's King Cyrus.
Of course Cyrus was a Persian.
Ganymede's connection to Aquarius
and Ambrosia and honey is interesting
given that the Age of Aquarius
is also known as the Golden Age.
I have several astrological planets in
Aquarius in my Natal chart. Feb
19th is on the cusp of Pisces and Aquarius.
Aquarius is an air sign. The color blue
is associated with Aquarius.
The 5th Dimension Age of Aquarius 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE
https://www.thoughtco.com/phrygian-cap-bonnet-rouge-1221893
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede_(mythology)
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