I'll start by adding the link to the deck again:
http://ciromarchetti.com/
OK...I do have several favorites so far, but I will stick with one for now... I posted in the GT thread how cool it is that Ciro has The Hanging Man for Trump XII.
Hanging implies ongoing present tense...AND, there is a chain that looks somewhat like a Rube Goldberg rig-up. The chain is just out of reach of the man's hand, as if to indicate, he can reach up at any time, pull the chain and upright himself.
For me, this changes the images of some of the older implications of a person being hanged for bad deeds...In one old deck, it even has a mandrake growing up from beneath his head, which was thought to have happened when a man was hanged until death from the gallows.
Here we have voluntary sacrifice, suspension from earthly plights, arms in motion though as if he won't be there long, connected to a wheel that turns (implicating I wonder, the Wheel of Fortune?)
I like to think that this implies we can't voluntarily suspend ourselves from involvement in our situations in life for too long, that life itself moves on, the Wheel turns. In other XII cards, the Hanged Man is quite vertical, motionless, and, e.g., in the Tarot de Marseille, with his hands folded behind his back, inaction, renunciation..
Somehow, the Hanging Man is like a modern day person, who can't usually afford the time to go into a suspended state of inaction for too long. Yet, it implies that at times we must slow down, and turn ourselves upside down that we may receive direction from a different perspective? from a divine source?
That's a start ....I do have other favorites, but am anxious to hear from others as to theirs.
Thanks, Luna...
tmgrl
Ciro, hop in here...we don't have your book yet! So we're "hanging" by the seat of our Tarot pants here....LOL