Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Unfortunately, It's Been Said Before...

[courtesy of Huntington]

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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3 comments:

LadrĂ³n de Basura (a.k.a. Junk Thief) said...

As always, I guess it's an issue of how you handle the card you draw and make the most of it.

All the same, I'm not quite sure how I feel about drawing the Impress this round.

The Angry Young Man said...

Dionysius, eh? Paglia would be proud.

Anonymous said...

and i am SO happy :-) so nice to have company here in the hot place.