He hangs from a living T-cross by one ankle, the free leg crossed behind: the figure of a traitor's punishment, wearing an expression of complete calm.The Hanged ManA naked woman kneels by a pool, one foot on land and one in water, pouring from two vessels: one back into the pool, one onto the earth.The Star

Card combination

The Hanged Man and The Star

Suspension drawn with what follows it, and the tradition reads the pair as a pause that turned out to be worth taking. The Hanged Man gave something up and The Star is the state on the other side, unhurried and unguarded. It is favourable and slow.

Together

Suspension drawn with what follows it, and the tradition reads the pair as a pause that turned out to be worth taking. The Hanged Man gave something up and The Star is the state on the other side, unhurried and unguarded. It is favourable and slow.

In love

Associated with a period of stepping back producing something better than pushing would have.

In career

Read for a delay that proved productive. The pair notes this is only ever visible afterwards.

The advice

The waiting worked. Remember that it did, because the next wait will feel exactly as pointless as this one did.

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