XII - The Hanged Man

Titles: The Spirit of the Mighty Waters
Hebrew letter: ם, מ (Mem = water = 40, 600) [Mother Letter = Elemental Trump]
Element: Water
Astrology: Neptune ♆ (rules Pisces, exalts in Leo; detriment in Virgo, fall in Aquarius)
Path on the Tree of Life: 23rd Path (Geburah ↔ Hod; 5 ↔ 8)

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in the Aeon of Osiris, this card represented the supreme formula of adeptship; for the figure of the drowned or hanged man has its own special meaning; the legs are crossed so that the right leg forms a right angle with the left leg, and the arms are stretched out at an angle of 60°; so as to form an equilateral triangle; this gives the symbol of the Triangle surmounted by the Cross, which represents the descent of the light into the darkness in order to re deem it; for this reason there are green disks (green, the colour of Venus, signifies Grace) at the terminations of the limbs and of the head;
the air above the surface of the water is also green, infiltrated by rays of the white light of Kether;
the whole figure is suspended from the Ankh, another way of figuring the formula of the Rose and Cross, while around the left foot is the Serpent, creator and destroyer, who operates all change;
his background is an unbounded grill of small squares; these are the Elemental Tablets which exhibit the names and sigilla of all the energies of Nature; through his Work a Child is begotten, as shewn by the Serpent stirring in the Darkness of the Abyss below him;
yet the card in itself is essentially a glyph of Water (מ);