He raises a hand in blessing while two initiates kneel below.The HierophantHe 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 Man

Card combination

The Hierophant and The Hanged Man

Orthodoxy drawn with the figure hanging upside down, and the tradition makes a great deal of the image: the one who sees the tradition from the other way up. The pair reads as a genuine break with received understanding, arrived at by suspension rather than by argument.

Together

Orthodoxy drawn with the figure hanging upside down, and the tradition makes a great deal of the image: the one who sees the tradition from the other way up. The pair reads as a genuine break with received understanding, arrived at by suspension rather than by argument.

In love

Associated with an inherited assumption about relationships losing its hold, and with the disorientation of that.

In career

Read for a period of doubting the standard practice from inside it. The pair treats the doubt as productive rather than disloyal.

The advice

You do not have to argue with it yet. Seeing it from the other side is a stage and it is not the same as rejecting it.

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