The Devil
The Devil card represents addiction, destructiveness, and unhealthy attachments. It signifies being chained to negative forces such as addiction, obsession, or toxic relationships. This card also reflects feelings of helplessness and shame, indicating that you believe you have no alternatives. Understanding what binds you is crucial to finding freedom from these chains.
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Introduction
The Devil, depicted in the form of Baphomet (The Sabbatic Goat, an intersex magical deity used in modern Western mystic traditions, often used visually as a stand-in for Satan), lords over a crowd of blissfully unaware party-goers.
Focus on the Chains
Each person in the crowd is engaged in destructive behaviors: sex, alcohol, drugs, and conflict. Any of these behaviors might be fine in moderation, but the Devil is about ruinous extremes.
A Time for Reflection
When the Devil card comes for you, it is time to ask yourself: what are you chained to? This is a card of addiction. You are tethered to some negative force bigger than yourself, be that alcohol, drugs, an obsession, or a toxic relationship with sex or a particular partner.
Feelings of Helplessness
You know those feelings of helplessness and shame that follow giving in to a desire that did real harm, either to yourself or to someone else? That’s what the Devil is all about.
Evils Beyond Control
The Devil card can also indicate evils that are out of our control. We can be chained by unjust societies and abusive situations. More broadly, the Devil indicates that you are trapped by a lie.
Finding Freedom
The power of the Devil is the belief that you have no alternatives. But you do. Once you have figured out what your Devil is, your job is to slip free of the chains.
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