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Episode 172: Head Over Heels: On the Hanged Man of the Tarot

Episode 172: Head Over Heels: On the Hanged Man of the Tarot

Update: 2024-06-261
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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

Sally Nichols, Tarot and the Archetypal Journey

Rachel Pollack, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom

Yoav Ben-Dov

Our Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot

Richard Wagner, ”Sigmund” from Die Walkure

Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth

Star Wars

John Frankenheimer (dir.), The Manchurian Candidate

Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Way of Tarot

MC Richards, “Preface” to Centering

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

Alan Chapman, Magia

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Episode 172: Head Over Heels: On the Hanged Man of the Tarot

Episode 172: Head Over Heels: On the Hanged Man of the Tarot

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel