The Devil (tarot card)

The Devil (XV) is the fifteenth trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional tarot decks.

According to A. E. Waite's 1910 book, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, the Devil card carries several divinatory associations:[1] 15.

THE DEVIL.—Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality; that which is predestined but is not for this reason evil.

Reversed: Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.In the Rider–Waite–Smith deck, the Devil is derived in part from Eliphas Levi's famous illustration "Baphomet" in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1855).

The Devil card is associated with the planet Saturn, and the correlating zodiac Earth sign, Capricorn.

The Devil (XV) from the Rider–Waite tarot deck
Le Diable , from the early eighteenth century Tarot of Marseilles by Jean Dodal.