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This is tarot, a different tradition from astrology. The card is drawn at random: nothing in the sky chooses it. It is a prompt for reflection and it predicts nothing.

How tarot is handled here

XVThe Devil
Tarot cardMajor Arcana

Traditionally read as attachment and constraint: habits, desires or dependencies that hold more tightly than they seem to. It is associated with temptation and with chains that are often looser than they look.

  • attachment
  • constraint
  • habit
A question to sit withWhat do I hold on to that may also be holding me?

Reversed

What the tradition associates with this card when it falls the other way up.

Reversed, traditionally read as a grip that is loosening. It is associated with seeing a habit or attachment for what it is, with the first steps away from it, and with the discomfort that comes when something long relied on is put down.

  • loosening
  • awareness
  • reclaiming choice
A question to sit withWhat hold on me has become visible, now that I am looking at it?

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