If you missed last weeks card by card post on the Hanged Man, you can read about it here.

Just like last week, I’ll be taking a look at several variations from different decks and gathering that particular Author and/or Artists thoughts and perspectives.

The Five of Cups is the randomly drawn COTW-card of the week.   What does it mean when you receive this card in a one card daily drawing or it turns up in a spread?

The first Five of Cups we’ll be looking at is from the Radiant Rider-Waite Tarot published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. 2003.

Author Paul Quinn explains the Five of Cups as a card of sadness, remorse, loss, disappointment, a time of mourning, and wallowing in regrets.   In “Tarot for Life” he goes on to say:

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If you missed last weeks card by card post on the Nine of Cups, you can read about it here.

Just like last week, I’ll be taking a look at several variations from different decks and gathering that particular Author and/or Artists thoughts and perspectives.

The Hanged Man is the randomly drawn COTW-card of the week.   What does it mean when you receive this card in a one card daily drawing or it turns up in a spread?

The first Hanged Man we’ll be looking at is from the Radiant Rider-Waite Tarot published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. 2003.

Here is a man turned upside down, inverted, in a position contrary to that in which we find most people.  Tradition says, by the way, that St. Peter was crucified in this position, and the tradition may have more than a hint for us, when combined with the idea that Peter was crucified in this position, and the tradition may have more than a hint for us, when combined with the idea that Peter is the “rock of foundation.”  The mental attitude suggested by the Hanged Man, then, is “Not my will, but thine.”  This is ever the position of the adept, as, indeed it is the position of every person who works in any field of applied science. 

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