The Satan is the fifteenth card of the most important arcana, coming simply earlier than Temperance. In a conventional Rider-Waite deck, the cardboard depicts a half-goat, half-man with vampire bat wings and an upside-down pentagram above its head. Beneath the creature, a person and lady (each bare and with their very own tails and units of horns) are loosely chained to him. The chains, nevertheless, are fairly free, indicating that the person and lady may go away in the event that they needed to.
As tarot reader and founding father of Magical Tarot Leah Vanderveldt explains to mbg, the Satan card is sort of a stand-in for our interior demons. “The issues we give our energy away to, the voices that hold us small or ashamed—primarily our shadowy components,” she explains, including this card typically exhibits up round unhealthy patterns in our lives, be it in relationships, unfavorable or dangerous self-talk, and/or problems with habit.
“The excellent news is when the Satan comes round, you are given the chance to bop with this vitality and liberate your self from any cycles or dependencies which might be retaining you down and afraid,” Vanderveldt says, noting that this card could be an invite to dive into some shadow work, as nicely.
