The Hanged Man is offering you the chance to look at something from a totally different perspective and to relinquish the need to control the forces around you. The spinning spirals of emotion and attraction lull them into euphoria, and she knows there is always a choice in this card: to really allow herself to fall into this partnership and become a part of another thing, or to block off her heart and not fully experience what this love has to offer. NOTES ON ARTWORK: I have always loved the 18th Century Wheel of Fortune by Etteilla, and I was dying to create a contemporary version.

to get vulnerable and bare everything, from the intensely beautiful to the ragged truths we’re not so proud of. With her wand in the air, for now, she dances through her fertile landscape only lacking a little patience and maturity for creative genius to sprout. You may even need to take a few steps back to course correct as you make space for new perspectives and new insights. This card marks an incredibly spiritual or personal pursuit, and by walking away from old things, people, energies, ideas, beliefs, guilt or ways of being that are holding you down, you are choosing to shift onto the path of an electrifying new future.Move in the direction of epic dreams and warmer sunsets, as true happiness can only be built when we take a chance on ourselves. Choosing your sacred dream and your goal is one of the biggest acts of self-love that you can enact. As she steps up the ring begins to ascend, light shining down from above and flooding her senses with the soft hum of her keys: Success. And in the shadows of this reckoning lies the true key of judgement – that moment when we awaken to our truth, and we realize that the only acceptance that affects our ascension is the one that lives within our own hearts.

He’s kept his vitality alive with his dancing and with his obsessive addiction to a life well lived. By letting go – in sacrificing himself for himself – he was gifted access to the mysteries of language and symbols, and life. Wait for your advancement by actively pausing in introspection, and be careful to not fall into learned helplessness or to step into the role of the martyr at this time. This relationship has the power to change your trajectory and fill your heart with all the passion and spark of two souls in love.If you’re feeling any lack around any part of your successful journey, consciously let go of the little imperfections. What started out as 1 quickly became 2, then 3… until all of the wands had joined the flight in quick succession. And in the blink of an eye they have passed by, leaving only the change that they came to enact, and their echoed sentiment of Go!

These rituals have cleansed her heart and spirit, and she understands that she deserves much more than she’s been settling for lately. Use your feelings to guide you during this mystical period of intense shifting, and release old energies and stories so that you will be able to travel lightly. She blames it on her salamander printed pants and her passion for dancing, but the Universe knows that it’s just the way she embodies her boundless creativity.It’s magic in the disguise of unpredictability, and it will yield a stunning display of your blazing potential. Her power and her life force will slowly mend – and her love will begin to stitch together the fragmented parts of her heart and spirit. She will enjoy this new memory… the one where her situation holds so little power over her that she walks away before the ritual is even complete. They simultaneously point to the 8 stages of the year, and to the roulette of possibilities for the seeker’s answer.

Trust that you will be held by the Universe, and that you’ll become stronger and more resilient as a result. Your nest will grow around you as you sleep, and the landscape of your life will shift beautifully as you fall into your own rejuvenating cocoon.

Sometimes, as light and shadow seers, we choose the more difficult path because we believe we are making progress when we are ‘fixing our shadows. Sometimes these swift wands indicate the movement of creative ideas, or a particular piece of news that is travelling quickly. In them, she senses a support system, a teacher, a friend… all of the wisdom she has gained on her journey. In her resting state her anxious mind begins to relax, and her heart begins to pulse calmly, strongly….