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Wednesday, June 18, 200800:24

Oh Beware! I'm the Devil!

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You are The Devil

Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession

The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.

Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires. This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. On the flip side, however, the card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild - or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement. As a person, the Devil can stand for a man of money or erotic power, aggressive, controlling, or just persuasive. This is not to say a bad man, but certainly a powerful man who is hard to resist. The important thing is to remember that any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it.

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A number of other tarot cards are also misunderstood. All the major arcana cards are neutral cards. They take on meaning with the situations. Like Death. It means transition. It merely means the end of something and the beginning of another. Not necessary good or bad. Another one is Wheel of Fortune. It doesn't mean good luck is coming. It just means a change of environment and luck. That's all. So sometimes don't be too sensitive about the tag.

Don't judge a book by its cover...if not, you'll not see beyond the superficial!