The Devil (tarot card)

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Rider–Waite tarot deck

The Devil (XV) is the fifteenth

divination
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Symbolism

According to A. E. Waite's 1910 book, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, the Devil card carries several divinatory associations:[1]

15. THE DEVIL.—Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality; that which is predestined but is not for this reason evil. Reversed: Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.

In the

Waite, the Devil is standing on an altar.[2]

In pre–Eliphas Levi tarot decks like the

Tarot of Marseille
, the devil is portrayed with breasts, a face on the belly, eyes on the knees, lion feet and male genitalia. He also has bat-like wings, antlers, a raised right hand, a lowered left hand and a staff. Two creatures with antlers, hooves and tails are bound to his round pedestal.

The Devil card is associated with the planet

Earth sign, Capricorn.[3]

Major Arcana journey

The

Temperance. The Devil represents the Fool's involvement in economic materialism and complacency.[4]

In media

In the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders, the cast's Stands are named after tarot cards. The Devil's representation is Ebony Devil, a stand with the power to possess inanimate objects when its wielder, the minor antagonist Devo, is injured by his opponent's Stand.

The Persona series includes various characters represented by tarot cards. In Persona 5 The Devil card belongs to Ichiko Ohya, a secondary character.

The Devil of the tarot is similar to other European depiction of Satan. Here the Devil appears before Pope Sylvester II in a British manuscript. (Cod. Pal. germ. 137, Folio 216v Martinus Oppaviensis, Chronicon pontificum et imperatorum c. 1460)

References

  1. ISBN 0-87728-218-8
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  2. Arthur Waite
  3. ISBN 978-1-84885-053-8
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  4. ^ "The Fool's Journey". www.learntarot.com. Retrieved 2022-05-03.
Le Diable, from the early eighteenth century Tarot of Marseilles by Jean Dodal.

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