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Learn all about the meaning of the tarot card the Devil, including the upright and reversed interpretations and a few keywords to keep in mind.
In the upright or positive light, the ten of swords represents destruction, being pinned down by a multitude of things or situations. The person lying on the ground, defeated and bleeding, may also represent a feeling of hopelessness and being trapped by emotions or mental anguish, since the suit of swords represents strife and the mind.
The devil comes to the fore, [7] and despite everything God has done in favour of mankind, the speaker is not really sure whether he will gain eternal salvation. [8] God might "exert himself to beat off the devil, but whether He does so will depend on His free, unobligated choice."
In the Rider–Waite–Smith deck, the Devil is derived in part from Eliphas Levi's famous illustration "Baphomet" in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1855). In the Rider–Waite–Smith deck, the Devil has harpy feet, ram horns, bat wings, a reversed pentagram on the forehead, a raised right hand and a lowered left hand holding a torch ...
The Seven of Coins can mean movement, either moving house or moving up in a career. When upright, it shows commitment to work life or dreams. [4]Reversed, it signal excess energy and personal resource strain, the feeling of giving too much for too little reward or assurance of moving forward.
This is also referred to as the Darwinian problem of evil, [53] [54] after Charles Darwin who wrote in 1856: "What a book a Devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low & horridly cruel works of nature!", and in his later autobiography said: "A being so powerful and so full of knowledge as a God who could create the ...
The inverted pentagram is a widespread symbol of Satanism. [1]Theistic Satanism, otherwise referred to as traditional Satanism, religious Satanism, or spiritual Satanism, [2] is an umbrella term for religious groups that consider Satan, the Devil, to objectively exist as a deity, supernatural entity, or spiritual being worthy of worship or reverence, whom individuals may believe in, contact ...
Michael stands on top of the devil with one leg while holding up his spear to deliver a strike to his head. His wings are depicted open while the devil's are closed, signifying defeat. The ideal figures that he would create were done so not to overpower the image, but with grace and reservation.