0. The Fool I. The Magician II. The High Priestess III. The Empress IV. The Emperor V. The Hierophant VI. The Lovers VII. The Chariot VIII. Strength VIV. The Hermit X. The Wheel of Fortune XI. Justice XII. The Hanged Man XIII. Death XIV. Temperance XV. The Devil XVI. The Tower XVII. The Star XVIII. The Moon XVIV. The Sun XX. Judgment XXI. The World

The hanged man has turned his life upside down in order to find truth from a new perspective. He has sacrificed the comfort of the known in order to gain the openness to see God's will. He is outside of time, in transition from his old life to the new, pausing here to reflect on the truths that remain when all else is stripped away. If the hanged man shows up in a reading, he is telling you that you will only win by surrendering, that you can only make the change you seek by living in the transition and allowing in the new perspective that comes with a stripping away of the old and comfortable. My hanged man is a yogi in a tree in the desert. The tree is an art piece that was brought to Burning Man, and the background is the path to the man. Yoga has played a large part in my own personal transition, and has taught me about the truths that come when we still our brains and listen to our bodies. For me, that was a radical change of perspective, and one that has served me well in finding my own truths. Burning Man is also very much about stripping away the comforts of daily life to find out who we truly are. The path to the man is the path to inner truth for many people who take part in this festival. I have depicted my hanged man with his foot hooked over a branch, rather than tied as is often seen. He has made the personal decision to seek this new awareness, and it could easily be lost again were he to allow himself to become complacent. The trapezes to each side of him refer to a powerful passage from the Essene Book of Days. They represent the old life and the new, while the hanged man is in transition--in the difficult period between comfortable roles. He is in mid-air between the two trapezes, no longer gripping the old, but not yet reaching the new. In this limbo space, he has found the answers, reached enlightenment, known God.