The Emperor and The Hanged Man

Control drawn with deliberate surrender, and the tradition reads it as one of the sharpest oppositions in the trumps. The Emperor holds a position; The Hanged Man lets go of one on purpose and inverts. The pair is about a situation where the grip is the problem.

Associated with somebody managing a relationship that would improve if they stopped. The pair says that plainly and is not unkind about it.

Read for a project held so tightly it cannot develop. The pair favours releasing control rather than improving it.

The problem is the grip. Not the strength of it and not the direction, the fact of it.