The Devil card came to mind as I lay in bed this morning.

And lay.

And lay.

Felt apt.

Some would consider laziness a devil quality.

I was pondering how darkness can illuminate. How there is a richness to the dark as if it’s full of squirming creatures invisible to the human eye. How thoughts can wander to new possibilities in this fecund womb.

Which brought me to The Devil card.

The black background on this card doesn’t indicate that darkness is inherently ‘evil’.

It’s a reflection of the ‘evil’ inherent in not exploring beyond the known. Not opening yourself up to new possibilities in life. Evil reversed spells ‘live’.

Yes, The Devil card can indicate that you are chained to others in some way. Through apprenticeships, or worse, damaging psychic relationships, such as domestic abuse or slavery.

But deeper than that, The Devil card indicates that we are willingly keeping ourselves enslaved.

Those chains are loose. They could be lifted off.

We can chain ourselves to people and situations because we want to learn from them.

But we can also chain ourselves to people and situations because we are too scared to look beyond them. Unwilling to leave our comfort zones.

The torch light is pointed downwards.

We don’t want to know!

Can you identify any of these sorts of Devil situations operating in your life?