The Devil
“Tempting, Tempter, Temptation”
I always say The Devil is the chocolate cake of the Tarot. Maybe not for you but for me chocolate cake is delicious creamy, deep, get me over the edge of burnout, my only true best friend, kind of cake. Except for that I start to become dependent on it and then I can't function without it and then I'm obsessing about it and then it makes me crazy and then-- my life is just not good.Does that sound like any of your thinking? Relationships? Habits? Patterns? Yeah, I thought it might.
Sooo… do I need to say more?
Only you know your real weaknesses, but when The Devil card comes up, it's time to stop looking the other way, stop denials and yeah-- choose better. Sorry to be so direct, but that's what the Devil card does-- it calls you on your own BS. It's time to stop acting like that tho g you do is okay. It's not.
This could apply to any area of your life but as a reader I have found that my clients always know exactly what this card is trying to point a huge red arrow at. Whatever it is has been a problem for a while.
Most often it's an addictive thought pattern. The "I'm not good enough" thought is a common one. "I have to do everything myself." That's another. "Everyone else is the problem, not me." Yeah that too. And the classic, "I don't know what to do!" That's a thought habit that gets a lot of people stuck.
Maybe it's a relationship habit. That same "type" of person you fall for over and over-- that's definitely the Devil Card, except it's not the person it's um…you. The thoughts and beliefs that draw you to thank kind of person over and over. That's what is dragging you down.
The Devil Card also indicates that you might be trying the same problem-solving habits which have stopped working, or maybe they never worked in the first place. The Devil Card asked you to get honest with yourself about yourself.
If you are struggling with an addiction of a more challenging kind, remember that The Devil isn't here to punish you or make you feel bad-- it's telling you congratulations for being willing to face this hard truth and choose differently, one moment by one moment. You CAN do this.