The Devil sheds light on the powerful attachments between generations: energy, ambition, and the desire to succeed are passed down, and worth recognizing so you can direct them.
You carry an energy that pulls others along. When a family project matters to you, you rally the others with contagious strength, and you know how to be there for the long haul. Younger people draw from it a wish to succeed, and proof that you can hold firmly to what you want.
A very strong attachment can become heavy for the person receiving it. Wanting to keep your people close, controlling their choices, or expecting a specific answer from them leaves little room for their freedom. Asking rather than imposing, and accepting an answer different from the one you hoped for, eases the relationship.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
When the 15 occupies this place, childhood was sometimes marked by a dominant, strict, or unpredictable parent: angers, rules imposed without explanation, sometimes alcohol or a dependency that weighed on the atmosphere of the home.
When the 15 occupies this place, childhood was sometimes marked by a dominant, strict, or unpredictable parent: angers, rules imposed without explanation, sometimes alcohol or a dependency that weighed on the atmosphere of the home. The resentment loosens when you also take the measure of the inheritance received, the endurance, the business sense, the tenacity, and when you stop reproducing the control you endured. Talking about these memories with a third party helps set them down.
The 15 makes you pass on energy, ambition, and the will to fight for what you want. The right attitude is to show the child that everyone has dark and bright sides, starting by admitting your own: an anger acknowledged and repaired teaches more than a displayed perfection. Stay consistent: you do not preach a healthy life with a cigarette in hand. The trap would be wanting to control everything, their friends, their grades, their choices, or comparing them to the ideal child you had imagined.
From parent to child, the Devil points to the strength of ties. On the parents’ side, it evokes intense attachments: a home that cared a great deal about success, the family’s image, what must not be lost. These attachments may have given momentum, and also left the feeling of having to meet high expectations.
On the children’s side, the energy asks what you are trying to hold on to. The wish to protect, to succeed for them, to offer what was missing is powerful. Well directed, it becomes generous support; poorly channeled, it can look like pressure. The useful question remains the freedom left to each person.
This line invites you to spot the invisible chains of a family line: imposed roles, unspoken things about money or power, obligations never discussed. Naming them opens the possibility of loosening them. The energy of this arcana then becomes an engine you choose rather than an inheritance you endure.
Your son or goddaughter tells you about a study plan different from the one you imagined.
Your first reaction is sharp: you want to convince, to offer figures. You breathe, then ask what attracts them to this choice. The conversation changes tone. Back home, you jot down what you were really hoping for yourself behind your insistence, and what your own parent once hoped for. This clarity helps you tell them the next day that the choice is theirs.
Ask the younger ones for their opinion before giving yours
These points: portrait, parents and children, parents and children (inner).
A symbolic reading of the Destiny Matrix: food for thought about yourself, never a verdict or an established fact.
The portrait is the starting point, then the center is added to it.
Fictional example, March 14, 1987: the portrait is 14 and the center 3. The transmission point adds the two, 17, the Star. The received inheritance point adds the portrait and this transmission: 14 and 17 make 31, then 3 and 1 make 4, the Emperor. The full line therefore reads 14, 4, 17, from the portrait toward the center.
It evokes the intensity of ties in the family: attachment, ambition, the desire to succeed, sometimes heavy expectations. It points to neither a fault nor a fate. This line simply shows where energy circulates strongly between generations, and invites you to choose how to use it. The same force can support a shared project or become heavy, depending on the freedom it leaves each person.
By separating your wishes from theirs. Asking a question before advising, setting few specific expectations, and accepting their detours help a great deal. Putting your own ambition into a personal project, athletic, creative, or professional, gives this energy a place to express itself without weighing on the family. Your relatives breathe, and so do you.
Yes, in small touches. Acknowledge the attachment, then make room: a weekend apart, a decision left to the other person, a confidence respected. The tie stays alive and gains flexibility. Clear commitments suit this energy, which expresses itself best when everyone remains free to stay, and chooses to do so each day, without anyone having to ask you.
Illustrations: Nicolas Conver’s Tarot de Marseille, dated 1760, restored by Tarot World Project, CC BY-SA 4.0 license, via Wikimedia Commons — images resized and compressed by Versana.