I'm beginning to think I should have the "Card of the Month" or something rather than the Card of the Day, since I'm spending so much time on this one card. But it's very interesting to me, and very pertinent to me right now, so I'm sticking with it until I've learned all I can. This is The Hanged Man from the Haindl Tarot.

From Biddy Tarot:

The Hanged Man also tells us that we can "move forward" by standing still. By suspending time, we can have all the time in the world. In readings, the Hanged Man reminds us that the best approach to a problem is not always the most obvious. When we most want to force our will on someone, that is when we should release. When we most want to have our own way, that is when we should sacrifice. When we most want to act, that is when we should wait. The irony is that by making these contradictory moves, we find what we are looking for.

From The Idiot's Guide to the Tarot ("The Personal Year and the Tarot"):

A year to listen to your inner self. It's a time of waiting and patience--suspended action, in other words, and you'll find the emphasis to be on receptivity. This year you may find yourself feeling a bit like a victim--definitely an old pattern to break. This is another karmic year where patterns from the past are dissolved.

From Moon Cat's Astrology:

The Hanged Man shows up whenever we stop what we're doing to attend to the needs of someone else, and especially when it is painful to give up that necessity, basic drive or comfort. In many ways, he is the exact opposite of the Devil - who serves only his own selfish needs. This archetype represents the power within us to completely surrender some part of self in order to fulfill what we perceive as something greater, or at least temporarily more important. The Devil gives up his soul for some material gain, and the Hanged Man gives up some material gain for his soul. Ultimately, who do you think wins? Certainly the Hanged Man - because he spurns the fleeting comforts of human existence - knowing that our souls go on forever.

In the Hanged Man card ("The Tree") in the Gaian Tarot, the "hanged man" is a woman in the yoga pose called The Tree--"right side up in an upside down world."