@lion.
Just curious; why are you using [pagan] 'the hanged man' ,a major arcana card of the tarot,as your avatar?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hanged_...ot_card%29
Just curious; why are you using [pagan] 'the hanged man' ,a major arcana card of the tarot,as your avatar?
Quote:Modern versions of the tarot deck depict a man hanging upside-down by one foot. The figure is most often suspended from a wooden beam (as in a cross or gallows) or a tree. Ambiguity results from the fact that the card itself may be viewed inverted.
In his book The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, A. E. Waite, the designer of the Rider-Waite tarot deck, wrote of the symbol:
The gallows from which he is suspended forms a Tau cross, while the figure—from the position of the legs—forms a fylfot cross. There is a nimbus about the head of the seeming martyr. It should be noted (1) that the tree of sacrifice is living wood, with leaves thereon; (2) that the face expresses deep entrancement, not suffering; (3) that the figure, as a whole, suggests life in suspension, but life and not death. [...] It has been called falsely a card of martyrdom, a card a of prudence, a card of the Great Work, a card of duty [...] I will say very simply on my own part that it expresses the relation, in one of its aspects, between the Divine and the Universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hanged_...ot_card%29