The hanged man has turned his life upside down in order to find truth from a new perspective. He has sacrificed the comfort of the known in order to gain the openness to see God’s will. He is outside of time, in transition from his old life to the new, pausing here to reflect on the truths that remain when all else is stripped away. If the hanged man shows up in a reading, he is telling you that you will only win by surrendering, that you can only make the change you seek by living in the transition and allowing in the new perspective that comes with a stripping away of the old and comfortable.