From the author: In this series of articles I relied on the materials of K.G. Jung, Hayo Banzhaf, A. Crowley, I. Trizna, S. Heller, R. Gwaine, O. Telemsky, E. Monique, D. Fowles, as well as personal and professional experience. Illustrations - Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot cards, Rosetta (the female analogue of the Thoth deck), Tarot of Marseilles as my favorite ones. Child. Stage three. Arcana The Hanged Man (XII) You can convey the meaning of this card in words: just now everything was in order, everything was under control, and suddenly this happened! How often do I hear this from clients during sessions. And of course nothing was in order, the problem had been brewing for a long time. It was simply not noticed, but at some point it became clear that neither the present nor the foreseeable future were as planned. Life goes on as usual, without worrying at all about following our plans. This card reflects the situation of crisis moments of various kinds, when we have to abandon our plans and change the course of our life. “Who is in search of integrity,” says K.G. Jung, as if describing this card, sooner or later finds himself in that very suspended state, the symbol of which is the crucifixion. For he will inevitably encounter something that will put an end to his “I”, first of all, with what he does not want to be (the shadow), and secondly, with what is another, and not his own personality (individual reality of someone else’s “I”), and thirdly, with what his psychic Non-I is, that is, the collective unconscious.” Looking at the Hanged Crowley card, you can see that the unfortunate young man, almost without a face, is suspended by his leg on a snake above waters. What is the symbolism of this card's message? This is a card of severe trials, when a lot should change, but does not change due to the remaining psychological umbilical cord, a special energetic connection with the mother, represented on the card by the snake on which our hero hangs in the image on the Tarot card. An umbilical cord that must be destroyed at all costs, otherwise the girl will never mature enough to continue her path to finding selfhood. The hanged man is no longer a child, but not yet an adult. He clings to his desire to remain in childhood, which is the cause of many problems in this period of life. The Terrible Mother destroys the heavenly part that makes him a hero. Then he remains in darkness, in captivity. Not only does he find himself firmly rooted to the rocks of the underworld, like Theseus, or chained to a cliff, like Prometheus, or nailed to the cross, like Christ, but the world is left without a hero, and, as Ernst Barlach says in his drama, a “dead day” is born ". Erich Neumann. Anyone who refuses to follow the path of finding himself, wanting to remain in childhood, betrays himself and the laws of the universe. The Hanged Man symbolizes precisely the traitor, hanged upside down as punishment for his crime. The Hanged Man lasso is the archetype of the victim in all its glory. The object to be sacrificed is the child. Child sacrifice is a rejection of the infantile vision of the world and attachment to the mother, which is growing up. Childhood chastity or immature sexuality (tinged with feelings of guilt and shame) must also be sacrificed, which gives way to the acceptance of one's mature sexuality. At this stage, the woman also needs to give up false suffering. From that suffering on display, when arms are raised, sobs are heard loudly, clothes are torn on the chest. This is not real suffering, this is suffering with the aim of savoring one's chosenness, to amuse one's pride, to gain sympathy, which in itself leads to inflation and stops life. To be continued.