The Hanged man

Micki's post and the St Peter who hanged upside down part made me think along new lines about the "Hanged Man". Is it calling us to be different from the master universe and the mind that makes us think and act in a pattern? Is it asking to respect the master within ourselves or to hang our egos?

The image brings to mind, the bats that hang upside down when resting. When I checked as to why they do that, there were some interesting answers

"Bats hang upside down because they do not have the capacity like birds to launch themselves into the air from the ground or any other standing position. Basically, by hanging upside down all they have to do to take flight is let go and gravity propels them down fast enough for them to become airborn."

"Let go and gravity propels you to become airborn" seems like a very interesting message that the hanged man brings.

Also bats have weak legs, so is it a situation that talks of a handicap that needs to be dealt with intelligence. Now the hanged man is hanging only with one leg and the other leg is crossed. When everything else seems to be falling there is still one leg hanging from the tree so there could be something that makes one hold on and if that is gone, will the man come crashing down or be saved?

If you draw a numeral on the hanged man, it is 4 upside down, the Emperor upside down, now that syncs with the St. Peter part too, while Jesus was King, St Peter was a follower and the halo around the head depicts sainthood.

So it seems like the hanged man speaks of - letting go, using one's intelligence, breaking from the master mind/plan, a handicap that could cause one to lose control, being a follower rather than the master, a time of introspection and rest, the call of gravity towards what is rather than what one wants.