The Hanged Man in A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages
The Hanged Man tarot card represents sacrifice, waiting, uncertainty, perspective, and contemplation. In A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, this is represented by a haiku and a microfiction piece.
The haiku, titled “Longing for your lips” after the first line, is a piece that reflects the “waiting” aspect of this card. The microfiction piece, “No Harm Ever Came from Reading a Book,” touches on the sacrifice, perspective, and contemplation aspects. The title comes from one of my favorite lines from The Mummy, but the setting for the story is a post-apocalyptic fantasy world featuring a main character who goes spelunking in the ruins of a library to retrieve books, where she stumbles upon a long-lost secret about the world she inhabits and must make a decision about what to do with that knowledge.
You can read both of these pieces, which are exclusive to A Tarot of Sorcery and Sages, alongside other poems and stories reflecting each of the Major Arcana of the tarot!
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