Yes the Devil is about enslavement. It is about all of our external addictions. The things we draw power from the is outside of ourselves.
The Devil could represent danger, Evil, and all those things that terrify us at night. It is our subconscious given into imagination...
But the Devil also means everything that is considered forbidden. It was the serpent that tempted Eve in the garden. It is anything that tempts us, controls us, all things that we allow to take hold of our light.
As with life, there is duality, there are bad sides... and also good sides.
It is to create BALANCE.
The good sides of the Devil are things like luxury, passion, decadence, indulgement.
Indulgement alone is a good example. To indulge after a long sacrifice can be considered a reward. To indulge and rob yourself of your balance is bad.
Most religions say to avoid all these wonderfully sinnful avenues. Sex. Sex is always the powerful force that has the ability to enliven and enlighten or it could be a tool for robbing you of your power.
All I have to say about how to control the energy of the Devil, is to have the inner strength to be able to control temptation... even partake with control.
It isnt until be LOSE CONTROL that the Devil is allowed to run rampid amongst our lives.
This is the energy of the "Strength" card. The inner power to be able to control yourself when faced with temptation. If the temptation wins, that is when we become enslaved to it. We literally relinquish control of ourselves to this external power of the Devil.
We use our experience, knowledge, and Judgement in order to be able to recognize when we are giving our power away.
We do not simple AVOID these scary addictive thoughts and behaviors out of our own fear...
We simply build up our inner barrier around ourselves with Confidence, Knowledge, Strength, and good Judgement.
Nothing will ever rob me of my Power ever again.
Not Money, Not Sex, Not cigarettes, not even foul relationships that I allow myself to get addicted to.
But I will be in that world but not of that world. I am going to make love, smoke cigarettes, drink coffee and energy drinks, smoke pot, swear like a truck driver and say, do, and be whatever the hell I want.
I can do these things because I remain in control. I am not enslaved to these things. I can have a cigarette, enjoy it and not become addicted. I can have four drinks one night and get drunk with some friends and not lose control of myself.
I can have Sex and not try to fill a void of feeling unloved.
It all goes and is okay until that point where you lose control. When it robs your personal power.
That moment of forgetting that you were always in control and are now just being deceived.
You forgot that the puppet show has strings.
I am not downplaying the abilities of the Devil... many many unimaginably horrid things have been done under the influence of the Devil... I have my own experiences with the omniscient "him".
Do as you wish, let it harm none.
The Devil card is the hardest energy to understand... but once you understand, you have control.
Nothing will ever scare you again.
I like to think that the Darkness is not feared, but the Forgetting.
Forgetting your Power while in the Dark.
Wake up in a dream, you live. Fall in a dream, you die.
You can go into the Dark and fear NOTHING. As long as you remember... you make the choices using your best Judgement.
Playing with the Devil card is always risky business... but the juice will ALWAYS be worth the squeeze.
Behind all that Fear, is great Peace.
There is nothing to fear but Fear itself.
Takes a person a lot of Courage, Strength, and Fortitude to take on the Devil....
The Strength card tells us that we do not tackle the Devil externally, but internally. The woman stand and gently opens the lions jaw. She uses her inner force to make the lion cooperate with her...
All those primal, low level urges and temptations are controlled by the higher self which is the woman. Feminine energy of lovingly accepting that which is fierce and scary openly and honestly.
That is Courage. To be open and honest in the midst of being afraid.
Judgement. The day of reckoning. Enlightenment. Wake up call. An awakening.
That "Ding" stage of connections. The Ah-Ha moment.
That moment when we get it. The collection of knowlege has just been organized and labeled and filed in the right order to make sense of things.
It is one thing to connect some dots and choose to remain enslaved by things... it is a whole nother ball game when the dots connect and understanding brings forgiveness.
With that forgiveness, it is as if it never even happened.
The Devil goes back from which it came.
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