AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
See Meditations on the Tarot/12 XII The Hanged Man and The Hanged Man (yes this explicit linking is getting tedious)
Sigmund as the hanged man – aware of his difference, his contrariness to normal society.
Crowley's weird interpretation – tries to adminish it, sweep it under the rug as remnants of a past era.
adminish is a good word, portmanteau of admonition and diminish
Everybody in Star Wars loses an arm – huh, maybe connects to arm behind back? (They didn't notice this)
Luke Skywalker as Hanged Man – At return of the Jedi he is a Sith.
Tomberg: balanced between attraction of this world and the Divine. The Zero Point and having to decide.
Crucifixion as worldly defeat and spiritual victory
Raymond in the Manchurian Candidate. Hm, bit too literal and obvious? And he's not torn between different attractions, its more like something has been superimposed.
St Peter cross is inverted because he was crucified upside down (I did not know that)
Some praise of Weird Studies/MC Richards Centering (but too positive), A "think gooder". 25 years later, more appreciation for the negative.
Hanged man as "staying with the trouble" (they didn't use this phrase)
homelessness as mentioned in Tomberg epigraph from Mark. Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace. Gravity is how things happen (incl mental causation), but grace is the exception (supernatural, because noncausal, non-gravitational). For Weil, these aren't opposed, each suffuses the other