Hi Julian, I'm quite new to tarot and I'm still processing the info when it comes to the meanings of the cards. Could you please tell me how would you interpret The World and the Devil as s€xual preferences? Thank you so much in advance 🙌🏻
Step 1: Determine the core meanings of the cards, and highlight the main points.
Below are excerpts taken from Labyrinthos and The Tarot Guide.
Astrological association: Saturn
"The meaning of the World card is fulfillment, achievement, and completion. This shows that all the efforts that you have been putting in place are starting to pay off. It reflects that you have completed a major milestone in your life and you have built the resilience to withstand challenges. The World may indicate completion of a long-term project. It symbolizes the moment when the inner and the outer worlds become a single entity. The four figures represent Scorpio, Leo, Aquarius and Taurus - representative of the four elements.""The World is one of the travel cards of the Major Arcana."
Astrological association: Saturn/Capricorn
"It can also be a sign of feeling trapped or restricted. You may feel as though outside influences or forces beyond your control are restricting you, leaving you feeling powerless and victimised."
"The more time they spend with the Devil, the less human they become. The chains make it appear as though the devil has taken them captive. Lust and temptation are symbolized by the Devil. There can be a sense of hedonism, and a selfish desire for gratification. Addiction to substances or material pleasures."
Step 2: Associate them with sexual preference, style, acts, etc.
The World: Fulfillment, achievement, and completion ... all the efforts that you have been putting ... major milestone ... resilience to withstand challenges ... completion of a long-term project ... the inner and the outer worlds become a single entity ... the four elements
Possible interpretation: These just seem long sex to me, putting a lot of effort, making a whole session out of it to achieve explosive orgasm(s) instead of just letting it be a quick one. This might sound dramatic but it might be the kind of orgasm that massively changes your experience, there could be some spiritual tint to it that I'm not going to delve into.
Other interpretation: Since the World could mean travel, it could also mean having sex during travel, or with foreigners or different ethnicities or people who are from different places. 4 elements of the zodiac could mean the sex includes all kinds of things, like I said, a complete session or play, it's a full experience; you got Air (mental), Earth (practicality), Fire (passion) and Water (emotions). The card is also the last card in tarot, it's a culmination of The Fool's journey, it represents experience and wisdom; hence it can also mean sexual experience.
The Devil: Trapped or restricted ... the less human they become ... captive ... Lust and temptation ... hedonism ... selfish desire for gratification ... addiction ... powerless
Possible interpretation: These tell you that The Devil is about control; feeling controlled (feeling restricted), not having control over desires (overindulging, addiction). This could mean the person has a thing for control in the bedroom, and could exert control through physical means; tying up, restraining, hitting, manhandling, etc. Sex that pushes you to the limit or plays with your limit. If that isn't bondage I don't know what is.
Other interpretation: It depends on your intuition, but this could also mean sex addiction. Since it's about control, that sounds like BDSM; the kink community has a lot of rules, some of them come up with contracts and agreement and whatnot. Very Capricorn.
This person likes to have control (or have their control taken) in the bedroom. Long sex, long foreplay, etc (The Devil, The World). Sex is both physical (The Devil) and spiritual (The World) for them. They may participate in kink plays that involve control, domination or submission (The Devil). They could like plays that involve some kind of mental/psychological, emotional and physical challenges or restraint (The Devil, The World). They could prefer sex that pushes them to the limit, sex that tests their control and endurance (The Devil). They use restraint (The Devil) to make things better so they can reach that explosive orgasm at the end (The World).
They could like having sex with foreigners (The World), or they could have a habit of hooking up with locals whenever they travel or visit a place (The Devil, The World). They could be highly experienced or prefer experienced partners (The Devil, The World), or like to broaden their experiences, or seek varied experiences (The World). They could have sex addiction (The Devil), they could be unfaithful. They could like someone older/more powerful, or they could like being the older/more powerful one (The Devil, The World).
Possible related things; Power play (control), orgasm denial (control), age gap (control, experience), bondage and impact play (control), choking and whatnot (control), dom sub master slave and the like (control, experience), giving orders in the bedroom (control, experience), threesomes/etc (experience), swinging (experience), cuckold or being the third person in the dynamic (control, experience), sexual interaction/game outside the bedroom (control, experience), etc. You can also read about Saturn in Astrology.