For an exploration of The Hanged One, I had to talk to Amelia Hruby, creator and host of the podcast Off the Grid, a show for small business owners who want to leave social media without losing all their clients.
These days, the prevailing logic is that ANY and EVERY successful business MUST have an Instagram account. But Amelia's made it her mission to show us what else is possible — something The Hanged One is in the process of realizing. This 12th card in the Major Arcana is about stepping away to take another look, being willing to change your mind, and the kind of inner work that prepares us to deviate from proscribed paths.
In this episode, Amelia and I explore hanged-one themes of shifting perspectives, doing the thing you think is totally out of bounds, cutting cords with oppressive systems, changing the rules we live by, separation for the sake of private investigation, not needing others to agree with us, standing in our difference (of identity and opinion), and getting upside-down.
Amelia also shares how one of her major Hanged One moments came when she broke up with diet culture, a choice that would prepare her to leave social media later — and start a whole business around it.
We also discuss: realizing you're perhaps "an acquired taste," energetic sovereignty, what happens when your inner child needs "to matter on the internet," letting old crappy beliefs drop out of you like change from your upside-down pockets, starting a project because people keep coming to you for advice about something, staying with a project long enough for it take off, and finding a medium where you shine.
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