From Touchstone Tarot^TM by Kat Black

The Devil

Meanings

A destructive path. Temptation, addiction, vice. Inability to face one’s fears and demons. Question your own motives. Identify your true goals, then look for reasons to succeed, not excuses to fail.

Reversed (?)

Taking control of your life. Sobriety, freeing oneself from the chains of vice or oppression.

Description

A bearded, ruddy-cheeked Satyr dressed in a wolf-skin offers the viewer a bunch of grapes with a knowing leer. Behind him is a wall of rock and fire, to which a nude couple are chained. A small figure dances in the flames.

Artwork

• Fire: MEMLING, Hans, The Last Judgment, 1467-71, Muzeum Narodowe, Gdansk.
• Stickdancer: BOSCH, Hieronymus, The Last Judgment (fragment of Hell), 1400s, private collection.
• Satyr: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel, Two Satyrs, 1618-19, Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
• Chains: TINTORETTO, The Liberation of Arsinoe, c.1556, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden.
• Adam and Eve: COXCIE, Michiel van, Original Sin, 1500s, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

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Comments

wanderer said Mar 7, 2009 (!)

What a great Devil! He looks like he really enjoys his job.

Alis said Mar 25, 2009 (!)

He looks like he'd be fun at a party...although inevitably, the cops and fire department would show up.

llvcota said May 7, 2009 (!)

I love this devil.

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