here's the truth

i'm the devil

materiality
material force
material temptation; sometimes obsession
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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everyone is a genius at least once a year
real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together

sometimes if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more
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