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Devil (15) & Lovers (6)
You are here to love – to give love, to receive love, to make love. You are guided by a deep love for the Universe but you also need to be careful that this love does not turn into desire or lust.
You are deeply passionate and can direct that passion for the greater good of society when you apply your highest morals and values to your decision-making. You dance the fine line between freedom and boundaries, and make the best decisions when you are acting from a place of inner truth and Universal love.

 

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Imagery — Things to Look at and Contemplate:

• Card Structure —identical. Each is a 3-figure tableau consisting of two naked human figures, one male and one female, standing below a raised central archangel.
  
  
  Angelic Gestures — Uriel's sleight of hand / Raphael's gesture of blessing
  
  
  Human Figures — partially demonic / fully human; chained / free-standing; separated / connected; fire & fruit
  
  
  Background — transparent / solid; torch-lit / sunlit; double-cube altar / mountain; fire & fruit)

Astrology:

• Capricorn (Devil) — sophisticated, ambitious and relentless; driven to possess and achieve; always competitive, every gain matched by an equal loss; practical and self-sufficient, happiness is in accomplishment
  
  
  Gemini (Lovers) — young, fresh and curious; charmed by life and its possibilities; always connected to a living partner or a vibrant abstraction; all joy is in the sharing

Predilection:

• Self-determined vs. Relationship-oriented
  
  
  Self-expressive vs. Cooperative creative effort
  
  
  Self-important vs. What's best for one's partner
  
  
  Some things are better than others vs. It's all good

The Lovers and The Devil are two images that alternate in a mirror, and each has two faces. Look once, and you may like what you see; look again and you may be dismayed. Whichever image looks back at you, it takes both faces to make you whole. One image seeks the bliss of coming together, while the other enjoys the pleasures of solitary achievement. One enjoys what it has, while the other knows what it wants.

The Devil gives each member of every pair its freedom, but links each to the other by need and desire. Pairs are separated and each half is given its own separate and competing value. Each individual stands alone against the world, a separate interest, with all the power and possibilities of uniqueness. Life and death, good and evil, pleasure and pain, health and illness, fight pitched battles in which no victory is possible. Each individual feels incomplete, aware of having some things but not others, of liking some things but not others, of knowing some things but not others.

The job of The Devil is to separate and individualize, giving to each the glory and the vulnerability of being one by itself, incomplete but capable of fulfillment.

The Lovers see themselves in everything. They are always aware of the twoness of things. They delight in the alternation of day and night with their paired deities of sun and moon. The ways of the birds and the bees enchant them. And they acknowledge the solemn necessity of death following life.

Their job is to witness and accept all the marriages of opposites that make the universe what it is, and with every marriage, to release the orgasmic joy of making two into the original one.

Unintegrated and imperfectly realized, The Devil can be at once beautiful, brilliant and seductive, and cruel, destructive and terrifying. He has what everyone needs and desires but sells at a punishing price. His motto is "I'll give you three wishes," and he laughs uproariously at his own joke.

The Lovers can be naive and irresponsible, shallow and inconsequential, vain and deceitful. They may join in impermanent liaisons and enjoy or suffer as these liaisons come and go. Their energy can be a storm in a teacup in which they are forever in danger of drowning.

Together, The Lovers and The Devil know all the secrets of the visible universe, and can give the gift of harmonious power.

 

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Hey so I've been (watching Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) wondering something.
Apparently, if you do a simple equation with your birth date, you get something that is called your Birth Tarot Card.
I don't believe in any of this stuff, but it might be a little interesting regardless. I'm bored, so why not.
If you give me a long lecture on why this (obviously) isn't real, I'll personally find the nearest cliff in the Canadian Prairies, and throw you off it.

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With that out of the way, essentially what you do is this.
Add your birth date (DD) + (MM) + (YY) + (YY)
*Make sure to split your "year" into two parts (for example 1998 = 19+98)
Once you get that number (and if it is 2 digits), add those digits together.
If it's 3 digits, combine the first two digits, and then add the third one.
For an example, I'll use mine

February 23, 1998
23 + 02 +19 + 98 = 142
14 + 2 = 16

Or if you are just lazy, go to this link and it'll do it for you.
Tarot Calculator

I'll leave a list of the tarot card combinations down below to make things easier, feel free to leave a description of yours if you can find one.
Just find the sum you end up with, and match it to the corresponding card below.

10 = Wheel of Fortune/ Magician
11 = Justice/ High Priestess
12 = Hanged Man/ Empress
13 = Death/ Emperor
14 = Temperance/ Hierophant
15 = Devil/ Lovers
16 = The Tower/ Chariot
17 = Star/ Strength
18 = Moon/ Hermit
19 = Sun/ Wheel/ Magician

Apparently there are some exceptions, so I'll add them to be safe.
20 = Judgement/ High Priestess
21= The World/ Empress

If you want a description of your card, I ventured through the weird side of the internet for them. You can thank me later.
Here is a link to a list of them.
Tarot Birth Card Descriptions

I got 15 (Got suckered into a necro-post and didn't even notice I already posted here).