The Significator of the Body

[Nau7ik]

The Hebrew letter Mem; its element is water which is like Astral Light. It moves in much the same way. Notice the two crescent moons on The Hanged Man's shirt; this is a clue that subconscious faculties are at work here. Also, the "blue" shirt.

Yes! That’s exactly what we are taught regarding the attribution of elemental water to this Key: the astral light is ‘like’ water. The Hanged Man is upside down, as if reflected in a mirror. The ten silver bottoms on the coat, “and by their material suggest that manifested life is a reflection of the One Life.

This is affirmed by the numbering of the Key, 12. One and Two. The powers of subconsciousness (2) working through the agency of self consciousness (1). You read the numbers from right to left in the Hebraic tradition.

Paul Foster Case received an explanation from one of his occult correspondences, which he included in his book The Tarot:

The correct geometrical figure concealed by the Hanged Man is a cross, surmounting a water triangle. It signifies the multiplication of the tetrad by the triad. This is the number 12. The door, Daleth, is the vehicle of the tetrad, for it is the Great Womb also; and the head of the Hanged Man reflected therein is the LVX, in manifestation as the Logos. He is Osiris, Sacrifice, and Yod-Heh-Shin-Vav-Heh, Yeheshua.

When one consciously realizes the truth that the manifested life, the human personality, is completely dependent upon the One Life, the only logical course of action is the total self-surrender pictured here by the Hanged Man. (Paul Foster Case.)