The Devil - Meaning of The Devil in Tarot Cards

The titles of The Devil Tarot card is, ‘The Lord of the Gates of Matter. The Child of the Forces of Time’. The image seen on the card is that of Pan or Priapus. The Devil Tarot card should be studied with relation to the number thirteen. Both of these are the controlling forces of this Universe. They are both dynamic and static, destructive and reproductive. This card acts as the chains which bind a person from taking the right decision. The lower nature of man hates and fears this process.

Some people even believe that this fear and hate is what saves the universe from disintegration and is necessary to stabilize the life forces and preserve continuity. The colours that can be related to The Devil Tarot card are indigo, livid brown, golden brown and grey. Other things that can be closely related to this card are materiality, material force, material temptation among other things. This card can even be related to obsession, especially if it is associated with The Lovers Tarot card.

The Devil Tarot card usually signifies great success in business and career. It also signifies ambition, especially when it can over ride the wishes and efforts of other people. This card can be closely related to domination. Astrologically speaking, this card is Capricorn in the tenth house that can be related with the father. A person will usually find it difficult to change careers, will be stressed and will be dominated in case The Devil Tarot card is weak. Such a person may be bullied at work or may feel repressed. Such a person may even be obsessed about his work and career.

The image on the card can be explained as : The design is an accommodation, mean or harmony, between several motives mentioned in the first part. The Horned Goat of Mendes, with wings like those of a bat, is standing on an altar. At the pit of the stomach there is the sign of Mercury. The right hand is upraised and extended, being the reverse of that benediction which is given by the Hierophant in the fifth card. In the left hand there is a great flaming torch, inverted towards the earth. A reversed pentagram is on the forehead. There is a ring in front of the altar, from which two chains are carried to the necks of two figures, male and female.

The Devil Tarot card can most likely be related to ravage, violence, extra ordinary efforts at work, force and fatality. The Devil acts as a threshold to a new world. This card signifies the evil that is in a person to which he is completely blind. It also signifies predestination, but there is no correspondence in that world with the things which below are of the brute. Other things that The Devil Tarot card can be related to are unscruplous, impulsiveness, secret plans, hard work, rigidity, discontent, temptation and endurance.