The Hanged Man represents the planet Earth herself, in her aspect reflected by her consort, Tammuz. As the dying god of the yearly cycle, The Hanged Man symbolizes the fact that there are literally two kinds of people in this world: those who sacrifice their own happiness for the happiness of others, the way the Earth gives us her grains, and those who do not. There are people for whom the subjectivity of another human being's heart is a literal blind spot. We typically refer to such people as narcissists. But the same behavior is easily identified as subjectivist: finding the differences between oneself and another person to be more important than the similarities. Unfortunately, human history has been going for quite a long time, and the null imports of these most highly opinionated, albeit unwilling to engage, assholes -- became so pervasive and seemingly omnipotent that they have a name: "patriarchy." All humans can be patriarchs, including women -- they just have to believe in whatever it is that's the current hype. As citizens of planet Earth, we are all actually Hanged Men and Hanged Women. And there, right behind us all, is another human being waiting to replace us in whatever useful capacity we have managed to make for ourselves. So what is the point of all of this suffering? The point is that we are, all of us, gardens. No matter our abilities, disabilities, or proclivities, each embodied human soul is growing "things" that are not quite "things": loci of power both spiritual and physical, like the venerable Camellia sinensis, which did require generations of persistent gardening. Our Creator uses our souls and bodies to incubate sprouts we can barely see for a project that is infinitely bigger than our imaginations. We don't know what the true "good" is, or what its use is -- and we don't know what the true "evil" is, or what its lasting effects on the world around us are. We are born into self-sacrifice, because we are born without a theory of everything. The truth would set us free -- but some truths cannot be formulated for human minds. This has nothing to do with the human mind, and everything to do with the human condition.
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