The Hanged Man

Upright

A pause you didn't choose, and the invitation to see from it. He isn't being punished — he's hanging by his own choice, and the view is different upside down. Fighting the pause costs more than the pause.

Reversed

Stalling and calling it surrender. Or a suspension that has gone on long enough that it's now avoidance.

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