Waxing Gibbous, 98% lit: the Moon is in Aquarius

The full moon in Pisces is 2 nights out

Kitsune Tarot
The Hanged Lantern, from the Yōkai Tarot

Painted for this deck by Ada & Claude

Yōkai Tarot · Major XII

The Hanged Lantern

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Arcana
Major XII
Deck
Yōkai Tarot
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Upright

The chochin-obake hangs upside down from the torii and its light falls in a direction no upright lantern can manage. Stop struggling. The stuck view is the new view.

Reversed

Dangling out of habit: a pause that stopped teaching, martyrdom with a tongue out. If the light's shown you what it can, climb down.

Draw with this deckAll 78 cards

The Hanged Lantern, painted three times

All three decks run the same seventy-eight cards, so this one has two siblings: the same card, painted for a different world.

The Hanged Fox, from the Kitsune TarotKitsune TarotThe Hanged FoxUpside down from the torii, halo glowing: the fox stopped struggling and the world turned over instead. Yield, wait, look again: the stuck thing loosens when you do.See this one  →The Hanged Cat, from the Fill the Void TarotFill the Void TarotThe Hanged CatDraped fully upside down over a golden crescent moon, limbs dangling into the starfield, blissful. Nothing is moving and that is the point. Hang there; the view is different from underneath.See this one  →