Major Arcana · 15
The Devilfor Sagittarius · Self and Identity
"You're not stuck. You just think the chains are locked."
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The devil card represents our inner demons; he's often in a fiery pit with a kind of subversion of the garden of eden where adam and eve are chained to him. The devil reminds us of our potential salvation, while trying to shackle us to our fears that we will never be worthy of it
You are in a hell, and it's partly of your own making. The situation might be dire, but you deserve better and part of you knows it. Perhaps you are ruminating, calling an ex, or doing some other unhealthy coping mechanism to help the pain you feel inside. Focus on healing your inner child and wounds instead and your problems should become more manageable.
You've done the hard work to face the parts of yourself that you might not like. You dodged a bullet and made the healthy choice even though you were tempted to fall back into old patterns
Its place in the deck.
Where it shows up.
The Devil for Sagittarius in Self and Identity
The Seeker
Saturn against Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius is the harder planet arriving in the softer register. It will feel like being asked to do without something Sagittarius normally uses to smooth things over. Upright, this is surfacing whether or not it was invited.
When reading about yourself through a Sagittarius lens, the Devil card says that you feel like you are someone who figures things out and moves forward, a person who does not get stuck, and someone who has to keep moving or the sadness catches up. This has either made you resourceful and adaptable or has left you running from yourself in a thousand different cities. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Sagittarius blind spot in it is the specific weight of a single commitment, the slowness of actually building something, the possibility that it might not be enough.
In practice that can look like something you cannot un-see about yourself, or a season ending. Whatever form it takes, it is surfacing whether or not it was invited.
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