An Interesting Combo: Tower rx - Hanged Man

Barleywine

Whether we choose to read the psychological component or not it's always there, what I hear you saying is you're not interested in that side of things which is fair enough. Self awareness is the very first lesson tarot has to teach us, we need to look to the inner self warts, patterns and all and until we understand ourselves I don't see how we can read for others. We need to link a cards to feelings not events to understand them imho but each to their own of course. Being an intellectual you may be using all of your intellectual defences to avoid facing feelings.

I spent most of my first 40 years with the tarot doing self-analysis and working on self-awareness. I don't think there is a whole lot of unexplored territory there.

Astrologically, I shouldn't be an "intellectual" at all, more an "investigator:" Scorpio Ascendant, 8th-house Cancer Sun-Mercury-Venus, 2nd-house Capricorn Moon, Virgo Mars in the 10th conjunct the Midheaven.