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Card 15: The Devil — The Entrapment of Form

From Temperance, the middle ground, we approach The Devil, Card 15. The Devil has so many meanings and implications, that it can be difficult to sum up! But in some sense, all of them reduce to dealing with our relationship to ourselves as Form. We are spirit, taking form, in order to learn and experience, "play" if you will with experiences that are only possible through taking form. But as we come into form, we forget that we are spirit, and become absorbed, overwhelmed, blinded, by the perceived needs and issues of form, bringing up emotions such as greed, anger, hatred (towards ourselves or others), overwhelming need, want, or desire, and above all, fear -- the fear of getting hurt. As spirit, we are unhurtable, but as we identify with form, form can certainly be hurt, as we all know. Today, we are called upon to face our relationship with form, and to see it as the great Teacher, the way through which we have the opportunity to connect to the highest of all possibilities: awareness of spirit, of light, within form, within us, igniting us, enlivening us. All text, material and images copyright Melissa Townsend, 2013