This is laughter, humor, reality. It is human nature
accepted, recognizing your own faults as well as those
of others and bringing them to light. Natural
instincts, desires, and needs are there for the good or
the bad and they cannot remain hidden, if they do, they
become our worst enemy. Making friends with our darker
side.
Angie (angi1003@my-deja.com)
nuisances, hassles, bedevilments, interference,
interruption, the need to maintain your sense of humor
and not take yourself too seriously
Starr (myfreetarot@yahoo.com)
The Devil card, raw power unleashed. The sexual graphic
depicts the moment when creativity is unrestrained.
Electricity sparks in the background, and webs of
creation and change are at their most primitive state.
The spheres contain developing creations.
This card represents creation and conception. It has
already begun.
Solitaire
Earthly passions are turning you inside and out. The
sign of Capricorn is about being reserved, patient;
however, the nature of lust and sex is too overbearing
sometimes. Not a bad card. However, could be if
natural urges are extremely surpressed willingly. The
Devil is not to be taken literally, as most people like
to personify this entity. But, the Devil is inside us
all and does need expression to a great degree. What
we tend to forget in all this confusion is that there
is a Higher Power at work here (notice the "Eye"
between the goat's head), and that everything
eventually returns to this source. So, relax and do
not deny our earthly urges; but, at the same time,
don't let them consume you either. If this card comes
up, your logic(mind) is trying to align up with that
higher source to manifest here in physical reality
(Earth)...don't give up...
Dreamer (power2@stic.net)
The horns on the goat, central to this card, are spiral
and rising infinitely to the heavens. The card, to me,
represents (among other things) unbridled creativity.
Improvisation is the key as the type of creativity
suggested here is not cognisant of the result. What
will be will be. A free spirit is able to tap into the
energy of this card and experience inspiration in the
field of the arts and music, or indeed any area. It is
not coincidence that at the centre of life's
reproductive and replicative nature is the molecule DNA
which is also based on a double helix or spiral. In
this one molecule involving a code of 4 bases
(spiritual significance of 4) life's infinite variety
is found.
Tom Adams (Tom.Adams1@tesco.net)
And what is the symbol of Capricorn? It is a picture
of the WOMB, united with the sperm: Solve et Coagula.
myrrh (myrrhman@hotmail.com)
The devil card is clearly the representation of the
phallus. This card represents the sexual aspect of a
person. It can be contrived as the devil controlling
our sexual urges by some but merely represents Pan, the
demi-god who was mischevious but not evil, merely being
natural.
PAN (pan@sixstrings.freeserve.co.uk)
The Devil is the creation of man. He is the obsession
that has taken over and is now the master. It is the
CHOICE of his creators to remain captive or to break
free.
Sheila Holloway (sdholloway@minister.com)
A card with a number of meanings: that which we reject
and therefore imprisones us. Integration is the key.
Integration and analysis. To look without bias,
without fear. To see with the eyes of God. There is
no enemy anywhere.
Matt (ensurientchaos@rocketmail.com)
On the bottom of the card one finds people trapped
within the cells, mechanized, organic robots. In
classical Tarot tradition, Pan squats over two people
in chains around their necks, which they could throw
off at any moment. Thoth Tarot takes this to the next
level and shows people trapped within their own bodily
cells (selves) as domesticated primates (robots). This
represents the programmed condition of 99% of the
people one meets, but by the realization of this
programming, such as a shock to the mind (as seen in
the previous card, The Tower; Magical Tarot runs in
reverse) one finds the way beyond it, Pan. A
programmed nature or rigid mental mindset or routine
that one should challenge and change(Art) in order to
destroy it (Death), and this must happen repeatedly,
magickally (The Hanged Man). A mirror that shows you
that you must change in order to lead your own path.
The Fool (wigtil@hotmail.com)
Time of introspection and caution.
Questioning spirituality; reexamination of beliefs.
Can be initiation into new realms of discovery.
Can be renewel of faith.
Conflict with environment and people.
Can indicate stress or fear of something.
Trial that must be overcome.
isis (isis_74@hotmail.com)
The first being to first cut a path through
some black new jungle can be forgiven almost
anything. Those who come after, to widen the
path, do well to show more caution and respons-
ibility. There is some kind of appropriative
curiosity here, like when you get a new tv and
your cat just has to explore the box it came in.
The deepest meaning of this card is to be the
first in a new dark place, and compelled by
necessity to establish for oneself and those to
come the idiom of that place. It speaks of a
responsibility which has no recourse to peers,
or to a culture, or to the divine, wholly unad-
vised, and wholly alone, yet wholly commited.
'mammal (jo@sylum.dungeon.com)
The devil is mans practical side. RA=light=knowledge=GOD
Osiris is dark or the earth and is the devils turf. A
living man is the devil until he gets enough
enlightenment to leave his Natur behind. Pot nature is
the egyptian way of saying the mind. It's symbol is the
pentagram inside a circle. We all start here on earth
devils. If you want to go to heaven then work hard by
knowing all:)
THomasOTH (spdracer@gate.net)
Raw nature. No limits. To do what you want to do,
without care for what anybody else thinks, weather they
are wrong or right. To be free.
Lin (veda@rocketmail.com)
A creative, progenerative, active principle. The goat
and the laurel wreath are both fertility symbols; the
two spheres and the column rising behind the goat
create an embarassingly obvious phallic symbol; and has
anyone noticed that the two spheres depict a pair of
cells undergoing mitosis (or possibly the first stage
of meiosis), with the chromosome strands lined up down
the center?
Michael S. Gentry (michael.gentry@ey.com)
"What matters creative endless toil, when at a snatch
oblivion ends the coil".
These are the words of the
devil; misleading, discouraging and untrue. Beware of
the devil's deception.
Steve Elliot
The master of illusions: Loki. Voluntary Bondage.
The trap of the lazy and insincere: ignorance is
bliss. This card illustrates the pathetic human
condition of choosing an illusion over that which
is true when finding that truth requires effort.
Gerald del Campo (solis@hevanet.com)
As you can see the people are trapped in the
sphears at the Devil,s hoofs. The sphere is greatly
cracked though.
The Devil's interpritation is that of a binding
that is unnessary. One you that can be gotten out of.
Michelle (meph@worldnet.att.net)
Stress & humor.
Temptations of the world.
Face your problems with tenacity.
Laugh! Don't take problems so seriously.
Sexuality & sensuality = Attraction & resonance.
Finding your spiritual self and looking from
that viewpoint will conquer stress.
Alison (alisond@anv.net)
The creating force in it's most chaotic form.
Matt(aratron1@aol.com)