Hanging Men and Bats 🦇

🦇 It all started with an unusual event in which someone with a rather curious appetite decided to try a soup🍜, having a bat as the main ingredient. Fast forward to a few months later, and humanity is grinding to a halt forced to reassess its ways of living, thinking, and being.

After bringing China to a stand-still ✋, the epicenter of the coronavirus crises has moved to northern Italy, home of the 15th-century Visconti-Sforza Tarot Deck 🃏, a masterpiece among the first tarot decks ever encountered.

By that time, a well-known punishment 👊🏻 for disloyalty would be the pittura infamante, a public display of the offender tall hanged upside-down by one ankle. This shameful 🤭 punishment was supposed to force convicts to rethink their selfish ways under a new perspective (well, literally).

The Hanged Man (see picture), twelfth Major Arcana card in the most traditional tarot decks, depicts this singular form of punishment to convey a vital message ☝🏾. One of surrender to a halt and reassessment of old ways of being that no longer serves 🙅🏻‍♀️. 

There's no scape. Pushing forward, believing that more action will drive you to where you want to go, won't work here. Stop 🛑. You must slow down to reconnect to your reason. You'll be free once you gain the enlightenment required to embrace your fate. Trust this, and you'll find your path 🛣 again into the grand scheme of things. But for now, you need to Stop.

Coincidence or not, Mother Earth 🌎 passed Her urgent message through an animal famous for hanging upside down 🦇. So let's take this opportunity to pause and meditate on new ways to evolve and live harmoniously with Her. Global warming is already a reality. And humanity doesn't need to be hanging upside down again to realize that we can't sustain our frantic living ⏭.