The Devil

Facing your shadow side and being accountable for your karma and the sides you don't want to be confronted with can be one of the most challenging things we humans face sometimes; being drawn to things for unknown reasons that we don't know what it is we are being drawn into, that we don't want to be in front of. We paint a picture that is so different from the truth and the real reason for what we face. We face a dark force that wants to mess with our heads.

The devil can appear false and deceitful with evil intentions, deceiving or tricking someone with his words and actions, Something that does not match the costume that we encounter and to disguise themselves as good and honest and hide their less good intentions. which are many times not good not so good and well meaning intentions . Those who fall victim to the devil's intentions may also not be the best individuals but buy the devil's intentions without questioning his intention with things. Rather, they too may harbour the intentions of the evil one's ego, but in a different form.

By enticing or tempting with what may appear to be a benign act that has neither value nor an intention to serve any good purpose. The devil actually has a purpose as our shadowy figure that appears from time to time in our lives on different levels and teaches us a lesson of how we are ourselves and tests our own perhaps not always pure and thoughtful decisions and actions. We believe that we are usually helpless in the hands of the devil, chained in the shackles of evil, which we rarely are, or that we may unknowingly both allow ourselves to be caught and remain trapped in the hands of the devil until we fight back and do everything in our power to escape situations that we ourselves have caused. In the garden tarot I have chosen to illustrate the devil as the form of a troll. the devil looks very ordinary while the devil is glimpsed with hairy legs and tail that reveal that the devil is not really human. The devil has a piece of mandrake in his hand, which he tempts the young man, who thinks he is chained but is free.

In professional life, the devil is perhaps in gambling and gaming where wealth is promised by taking the money of others. the devil is not fair or true but challenging and a truth of its own where the one who states it claims the right to take it. so it is a bit of outsiders and extortionists who are not in the world sharing principles that society holds sacred. Then the devil fits into the identity of those who do not see justice as an axiom of how to behave towards each other in life.

"Upright"

This card of The Devil indicates temptations and enticements of various kinds, going down the wrong path, getting lost, inclinations, dependencies, difficulties in finding the way out of stuck situations. Materialism, need for control, fears, horrors, illusions, chained in situations. Manipulated, controlled, sarcastically positioned.

"Reversed"

This position indicates the ability to get out of difficulties, inclinations and dependencies. Get out of situations, figure out the problems, let go, able to get out of stuck situations.