You have found yourself trapped between the short-term pleasure you receive and the longer-term pain you experience. You may be at the effect of negative habits, dependencies, behaviors, thought patterns, relationships, and addictions. The Devil card represents your shadow (or darker) side and the negative forces that constrain you and hold you back from being the best version of yourself. NOTE: The Tarot card meaning description is based on the Rider Waite cards. Both have tails, a further symbol of their animalistic tendencies and raw instincts, and the grapes and the fire on their respective tails signify pleasure and lust. Each has small horns on their head, like the devil’s, a sign that they are becoming increasingly like him the longer they stay here. They appear to be held here against their will – but look closer, and you will notice that the chains around their necks are loose and could be easily removed. In his left hand, he holds a lit torch.Īt the foot of The Devil stand a man and a woman, both naked and chained to the podium on which The Devil sits. He raises his right hand in the Vulcan Salute – a Jewish blessing, later made famous by the film series, Star Trek. Above him is an inverted pentagram – a sign of the darker side of magic and occultism. He has a hypnotic stare which ‘magnetizes’ and entrances those who come near him, bringing them under his power. The Devil has the wings of a vampire bat, an animal that sucks the lifeblood out of its prey, symbolic of what happens when you give in to your raw desires. Baphomet originally represented the balance between good and evil, male and female, and human and animal however, more recently, this figure has been linked to the occult and has become a scapegoat for all things considered ‘evil’. The Devil card shows Baphomet, or the Horned Goat of Mendes, a creature that is half man, half goat. REVERSED: Releasing limiting beliefs, exploring dark thoughts, detachment The Devil Description UPRIGHT: Shadow self, attachment, addiction, restriction, sexuality
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