Devil - the meaning and current of the tarot card

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

The Devil in the Tarot is the fifteenth lasso of the magic deck. It is interesting for the tradition of depicting the Horned God, leaves room for imagination.

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The Devil is certainly present in different decks and design variations, and the meaning and current of this Tarot card is a symbolic designation of evil in all its versatility. The only discrepancy is that the god of evil among different peoples has a demon under his own name. For example, among the Egyptians, this is a wise set, identified with the ancient Greek monster Typhon.

The Devil Tarot card in any of its variations - with a demon or a fallen angel, with a tail and horns or with an inverted pentagram and wings, with a torch or two faces - does not change in its interpretation. The people chained to his throne are not slaves, but captives who voluntarily underwent the existing temptation, took the dark side at will and are quite satisfied with their position.

Astrologers are sure that the card does not contain an indication of some fatalism and hopelessness, but simply bad harbingers, especially if the fifteenth lasso fell in a straight position. But the Devil can denote the most amazing things in the layouts of the Tarot card:

• in a spiritual context - the absence of enlightenment, intentional, without the slightest craving for knowledge, which a person allows in order to indulge base desires and obscene whims;
• general meaning - temptations and temptations, which give in without remorse, justifying or hushing up (inverted - the triumph of reason and the ability to resist any hypostasis of evil);
• in work, this is dishonesty, negligence, insidiousness and gossip, the illegality of the actions performed, which poses a danger to the team;
• if the balance is on health, then the person has obvious pathological addictions - to alcohol or drugs, and if there are none, then the addiction to aggressive or perverse sex;
• in consciousness, this means approaching his own dark ego, some unsightly actions that allowed him to gain partial freedom and suppress the inherent human craving for the good and the light, or some secret that you want to talk about, but you cannot, because this will change the opinion about the person in the eyes of others;
• the kabbalistic meanings of the arcana - occultism, dark spiritual practices, Satanism, the close proximity of evil, which can no longer be ignored, because a person has gone over to his side of his own free will;
• Tarot card The Devil advises to resist evil more actively, to take action against Satanism, to suppress depravity in oneself, not to participate in dubious activities, or to stay away from a person who currently occupies the mind or heart.

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According to some interpreters, if the Devil falls on himself in the alignment, the meaning and current of the Tarot card rarely indicates strangers.

She teaches a lesson in self-development and self-purification, talks about evil that tries to dominate with all sorts of tricks, and this is not necessarily addictions or gambling. Evil can lurk in ignorance, unwillingness to assimilate the obvious, resist daily, petty temptations, purify one's spiritual essence, or involve other people in their intrigues, hostile confrontations.

Direct and inverted value

The Devil Tarot card in a direct image portends bad emotions and events, but extremely rarely speaks of some kind of fatal outcome. Whether in life or in a love relationship. However, this is a clear confirmation of the tendencies of destructive or inevitable and unkind, which can be avoided only with tireless work on oneself, even if the speech in fortune telling is not about the subject, but about his career or love relationships. The embodiment of evil appears to testify:

• striving for degradation, indulging whims and carnal pleasures to the detriment of spiritual development;
• lack of work on oneself, the inevitability of falling into the abyss of vice, submission to external influence, which is certainly bad and persistent;
• in the love plan, this is a sign that a person who is chosen as an object of passion or with whom there is already a strong connection is not who he claims to be, and this will lead not only to the collapse of illusions, but also to shameful acts, unsightly actions.

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Another meaning and current of the Tarot card Devil is skimping on your main duties, loss of a sense of conscience, playing with fire, which will lead you astray, and it will be difficult, if not impossible, to return to it.

In the inverted position, the lasso has a clearly positive meaning - it speaks of internal liberation, the disappearance of addiction and phobias, harmful illusions, resistance to pressure, submission.

In a relationship, an inverted 15th lasso can portend successful resistance to the seducer and tempter, gaining spiritual freedom from the influence of evil. This may mean an imminent rupture of a strong or accidental connection, which does not have the most favorable effect on the fortuneteller.

In alignment with other arcana

Other cards can change their positive context if they find themselves next to the Horned God, and this is not surprising, because even in the meaning of the card of the day, he portends a possible encounter with evil or the need, albeit forced, to commit unsightly acts:

• the most unfavorable combination, meaning destruction, severe illness or unexpected death, although Death can mean not only life destroyed in a figurative sense, but also a fatal outcome from addiction;
• even a combination with the Sun, consistently favorable, in this case means the dominance of the dark hypostasis;
• The moon can mean insidious intrigue, deception, madness;
• loss of Justice means crime or impending problems with law enforcement officials;
• The hanged man in this case is in his direct meaning, foreshadows the inevitability of what is happening, the person's lack of strength to change events for the better.

Many cards take on a negative meaning: the combination of the Devil and the Wheel of Fortune speaks of gambling addiction, the Fool and the Moon speaks of madness, the Chariot speaks of violence, and Strength speaks of an unsuccessful struggle with uncontrollable instincts. Even stable Moderation portends an imminent hangover from alcohol addiction or severe consequences from sexual cravings.

Outcomes

The devil is the 15th lasso of the tarot deck, the only one in which the inverted meaning is interpreted in a favorable sense - it means good news, but literally, on the contrary, bad, ominous and does not portend anything positive in any combination. If fortune-telling for a specific person contains this card, we are talking about a subject with a pronounced dark side, which he carefully hides.

The falling out of any card next to the Horned God changes its positive or negative meaning towards deterioration. The advice of the card speaks of a person's susceptibility to dark forces or addictions. In a love relationship, he testifies to submission, suppression, the undesirability of continuing the connection, leading to degradation. The Tarot card applied to a person speaks of a strong dark side, which must certainly be revealed in the future.