The Hanged Man Card

I chose the image of a Snowy Owl for my Hanged Man card, inspired by a memory from my childhood:
One foggy winter morning a snowy owl appeared on the lakeshore near our house. It was just sitting still on the frozen beach for the longest time until it was discovered by one of us and then one by one we children all crept down to the shore to catch a glimpse of this big white magical bird.

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The Hanged Man card in the traditional tarot deck shows a person with a rope tied around their ankle hanging suspended upside down from a tree branch. They aren't dead, but they can't go anywhere stuck up there like that, so for a while they just have to be still and consider the world from a different perspective (upside down!)

Why was the snowy owl waiting on the beach that day? Was it waiting for the fog to lift? For some food to appear? Could it have been waiting for us to discover it?

We will never know. But we do know that when you draw this card in a reading it means that it's time to be still - to watch and wait for a new perspective.