Up: [[Spirituality]] Created: 2023-03-02 I knew absolutely nothing about Lucifer until I attended Donald Kalsched’s presentation about trauma where he talked about Lucifer falling into Hell when he mounted a rebellion against God’s decision to incarnate. Kalsched was talking about trauma, but the larger point to me was the reminder that [[Every Archetype is Both Light and Shadow]] The Devil became the Christian conception of pure evil. This is set up as an extreme opposite not shared by the tarot viewpoint that the [[15 - Devil]] is a shadow you have to fight before you can have your breakthrough. > [!Orbit] Amanda Yates Garcia in *Initiated: Memoir of a Witch* > The Devil is evil if you give in to the fear he generates, but he becomes Lucifer, light bringer and wisdom snake, when, through dealing with him, you realize your own power, that you have choices and that you are at no one’s mercy. (p. 219)