Weird Studies/Tarot/The Hanged Man

26 Jun 2024 - 10 May 2025
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    • 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