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The Devil Tarot Card Meaning
The Devil is card XV of the Major Arcana. Upright it speaks of attachment, limitation, materialism; reversed, of release, awareness. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's Jungian archetype and its astrological correspondence.
Major ArcanaEarthCapricorn
Upright meaning
“Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality; that which is predestined but is not for this reason evil”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: attachment, limitation, materialism, shadow self, unhealthy patterns.
Reversed meaning
“Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: release, awareness, reclaiming power, detachment.
The archetype
The Shadow — bondage to what is repressed; one's own darkness met as if it were another's.
Astrology
Correspondence: Capricorn.
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