The Devil Tarot Card: Dealing with Pain
The Devil Tarot Card: Experience your pain, then let it go
Sometimes we deal with pain but do not heal it. We leave it where it is and move on. That pain does not simply evaporate. It remains right where you left it as a shadow, as something that always eats away at you, never quite letting you feel completely comfortable. As you move one, you tend to forget that the pain is there, but that pain remembers you. It remembers the circumstances that brought it into being. We cover this pain with layer upon layer of appeasement until it is no longer visible to us. But these layers of appeasement only placates the pain. It does not dissolve it. The pain will still seep through the layers and be absorbed by our psyches. This will add much weight to our spirits, we must remember that the idea is to shed extra weight, to become light that we may ascend into enlightenment. This weight from this pain is counter productive to this 
endeavor. When dealing with pain, we must address it as it happens so that this does not happen. The pain though, that has not been dealt with, the pain that has seeped though to saturate the spirit, here is where we must follow our shadows back to the light. We must project ourselves back to the origin of the pain. We must observe the creation of this pain without judgment, but with compassion and love for ourselves. We must tell ourselves that it is okay to experience this pain. It does not mean holding onto it. Feel this pain, experience this pain, let this pain pass through you so you can be done with it. When you draw the devil card from your tarot deck, consider this. Consider the pain you are holding onto. Realize that you must let go of it. Experience it, then let it go.
