Step 3 of 8 · Sacrifice and What It Buys
The Hanged Man
Why this step
The Hanged Man is the same scene as a card: suspension before insight, a sacrifice that looked from the outside like nothing happening. The entry’s reversed reading adds the check this trail needs. Sacrifice is meaningful only if something eventually comes back from it, and if the answer to what the stillness is buying you is nothing, it may be time to come down from the tree.
From the Lorebook
Questions to sit with
- What are you giving up or putting up with at the moment? Is anything coming back from it?