During a Hanged Man period, life slows down: you suspend your drive, look at things differently, and let an answer ripen in its own time.
The pause becomes fruitful. By ceasing to force things, you discover another way of seeing the same situation, and you gain patience as well as availability for others. These years may make selfless service feel more natural and bring out solutions that no stubborn effort had produced.
Waiting can become a habit. It would be a pity to confuse letting go with giving up, or to let a sacrifice go on that is no longer chosen. Giving yourself a deadline to reassess, and naming what you are putting on hold, keeps the suspension from turning into imposed stillness.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
A period marked by the 12 often looks like an imposed pause.
Projects may be put on hold, an answer may be slow in coming, a professional or romantic situation may seem frozen, and impatience may grow. For the method, this suspended time nonetheless has a function: it obliges you to look at your life from another angle, to review your priorities, to understand why the same difficulties keep coming back. It is also a period of service. Those close to you may need you, an aging father or mother, a friend in distress, an overwhelmed colleague, and the wish to commit to an association or a useful project may grow. Creativity often awakens: unusual ideas, a wish to write, to pick up an instrument again, to follow a personal development course or a practice like yoga. Your role during these years: help without forgetting yourself, and agree to let go of what holds you back. You may be asked to support, to listen, to find an original way out of a collective problem. The more clear limits you set, the more likely your help is to bear fruit. Areas that may be involved: family and vulnerable loved ones, work and its recognition, finances and debts, spiritual life, creativity, the relationship to the body. Practical advice: sort out the commitments that exhaust you; set a limit on help in time and money; look each evening for which gesture of the day was for you; turn waiting into preparation by moving a personal project forward, even slowly; keep your distance from relationships that hold you in a victim role.
A file stays pending, a message goes unanswered, a project does not start.
During a Hanged Man period, impatience might push you to follow up again and again. Another approach is to make use of the delay: tidy up, read, do a neighbor a favor, look at the situation from the opposite angle. Often a poorly framed question then rephrases itself. Noting each evening what has shifted in your view, even a small detail, helps you stay on course while the rest waits.
An original idea that unblocks a professional situation
A project or an answer that stays on hold for several months
Possibilities, not a prediction: no period announces a certain event.
The peaks of the ring reuse points you already know: age 0 the portrait, age 10 the paternal corner, age 20 the talent, age 30 the maternal corner, and so on up to age 70.
Between two peaks, you add to find the midpoint, then repeat for the quarters. On the fictional example of March 14, 1987, you find 14 at birth and 17 at ten. The midpoint, around age 5, is 14 and 17, making 31, reduced to 4. Around age two and a half, 14 and 4 give 18; around age seven and a half, 4 and 17 give 21.
Not necessarily. The climate described is rather a slowdown: some things wait, others move forward differently. It invites you to tell apart what depends on your action from what depends on time. Acting on the first, letting the second ripen: that is a peaceful way to move through these years without feeling trapped.
By choosing modest actions that depend on no one else: learning, sorting, reflecting, helping. Action changes in nature more than it disappears. Many people find that an apparent detour later brings them valuable resources. Setting a date for a checkpoint keeps you from sinking into waiting and gives you direction again.
In a child, this climate may accompany years of transition in which things seem suspended: waiting for a change of school, a family decision, or a stage of growth. Reassuring the child, explaining what is pending, and offering activities that occupy the mind help them live through this time without anxiety, with confidence.
Illustrations: Nicolas Conver’s Tarot de Marseille, dated 1760, restored by Tarot World Project, CC BY-SA 4.0 license, via Wikimedia Commons — images resized and compressed by Versana.