Waite–Smith, Trump 12
The Hanged Man
What you can see
A figure hangs by one ankle from a leafy wooden frame. The free leg bends across the other, and rays surround the head.
What Waite says
Waite stresses suspension within life and a face of entrancement rather than suffering. He connects the image to awakening and resurrection while rejecting several simple labels, including ordinary martyrdom.
Waite · Part II, §2 · printed pp. 116–119 ↗Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.