Make sure you grab the FREE Invictus Tarot TIY (Trust in Yourself!) Tarot workbook, if you haven't already! As a note, I am using the OG Rider-Waite deck for this series of posts, but you absolutely don't have to! Find the deck or decks that speak to you most, the cards you connect to most will always be better for your readings and sharpening your intuitive skills. This is just an example and reference for you to trust in yourself!
The Devil
Never forget that The Devil was once God's favorite and most beautiful angel... a reminder to all that even the best of us are not incorrigible. The journey may turn dark and be full of shadows, but will you shackle yourself to them or choose to break free?
Keywords: addiction, obsession, bondage, toxicity, deviance, violence
General Meaning: Time to check in on the temptations around you hiding in plain sight.
Personal Interpretation: Limitations and temptations are chaining you down, but these chains only look tighter than they actually are.
Reversed Meaning: release, freedom, detachment, revelation
Affirmation: "I look the Devil in the eyes and release myself from these chains."
Symbolism: darkness, devil, man and woman, chains
Imagery Notes: darkness - representative of hell, especially with the downturned torch in the devil's hand; devil - the angel gone rogue who tempts mankind; man and woman - symbolic of The Lovers, Adam and Eve; chains - shackled to temptations, limitations, but these chains are loose around their necks and they could release themselves if they so choose
People: helicopter parents, incompetent bosses/managers, former presidents of the USA that we can only hope will never come to be again
Places: Hell, prison, dungeons
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Personal Insights & Other Notes: All that is dark is light and all that is light is dark. There are two sides to every coin and none are exempt from temptation. Neither are we hopeless to turn things around, however, and we must always remember we have the power to release ourselves from our limitations to become the best selves we can be in this universe.
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