Symbolon Deck

63 DECEPTION

Brief Description

This card warns of deceptive games where victory is impossible, highlighting the dangers of self-deception, greed, and naivety. It reveals how manipulators often mirror our own immaturity and tendency toward self-deception, teaching us hard lessons about discernment. The card emphasizes that in dishonest games, there are no real winners, and calls for careful verification of all information received. Ultimately, it teaches the wisdom of 'trust but verify' while maintaining personal integrity and honesty.

Keywords

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Keywords

Self-deception, dishonest game, deception, magician's tricks, created chaos, intentional rule-breaking, fraud.

Card Description

Astrological Correspondence

Virgo\Pisces

Planets

Mercury\Neptune.

Archetypes

Servant + Angel.

Picture

Eastern bazaar. Shell game. A person trying to guess where the ball is thinking: 'I'm the smartest, I know where the ball is!' In reality, the ball is in the shell-game operator's hand. A dishonest game where it's impossible to win.

Falling for Personal Weaknesses

Falling prey to one's own greed, gullibility, arrogance. The card speaks of a dishonest game where it's impossible to win. There's a probability of falling prey to one's own greed and gullibility.

Clouded Consciousness

The person doesn't really understand what they're doing. Their consciousness is clouded, they're lost and can become easy prey for fraudsters. Sometimes we trustingly relate to colleagues or supposedly reliable acquaintances and end up deceived! But we must remember that manipulators and fraudsters often merely reflect ourselves, our immaturity, tendency toward self-deception, and thus teach us lessons.

Symbols and Colors

Thimbles - deception.

Card Meanings in Spreads

Positive Meanings

Courage to submit to the incredible, to life's chaos.

Negative Meanings

Deception, self-deception. Dishonorable plans. Dishonest game.

Card of the Day

The world will test the person for honesty and integrity. They might be deceived.

Necessary Actions

All information received today must be subjected to thorough verification. Also monitor the truthfulness of information that the person will transmit to others themselves.

Conclusions to Draw Today

In a dishonest game where winning is impossible.

What I Can Learn Today

Trust, but verify!

How to Behave Among My Circle

Today the world will test us for honesty and integrity. It's necessary to transmit truthful information to people.

Motive

Thirst for easy profit. Getting something for free. Intentional violation of rules and agreements. Illusion that you can get something for nothing.

State

Self-deception. Excessive trustfulness. Adventurer's mood: maybe I'll get lucky!

Process

With a catch.

Relationships

Relationships built on deception, possible love triangle. One of the partners tries to outsmart and use the other.

Warning

Free cheese is only in a mousetrap. Small deception breeds big lies. When you think you're the cleverest - someone cleverer will be found. The desire to fish in troubled waters will lead to nothing.

Advice

Don't consider your partner stupider than yourself. Be cleverer, act cunningly.

Result

Deception will be revealed - truth will be shown.

Additions

The surest way to be deceived is to consider yourself smarter than others (F. La Rochefoucauld). One lie will birth another (Terence Publius). Nothing pretended can be lasting (Jan Amos Comenius).

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✍️ Deck author(s): Peter Orban, Ingrid Zinnel, Thea Weller

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