In "God's Country" Sandra, Like Her Mother, Can't Come Back from Trauma - Tarot's Devil Card

The legacy of Category 5 Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans hangs on, at least with Sandra and with her mother who had just died. A former cop back there and now a university teacher in Montana, this middle-aged woman of color remains obsessed with how many of "her people" were left to drown.

That underlying mindset from the past and how it destroys her are depicted in the 2022 film "God's Country." Currently it's on Hulu. Within days of her mother's death Sandra self-destructs. That ranges from endangering her job to multiple murders. 

In the Tarot, the Devil card captures all that. It is the opposite of the Temperance card. The Devil is about synchronicity. It's the projection of a human being's inner darkness onto external reality. 

Like so many who become a closed system, Sandra isn't aware of that. Therefore even though law enforcement warns her that her behavior won't get her anywhere in that remote area she escalates it. That downward spiral is kicked off by demanding that hunters not park their pickup on her property. 

The extent of Sandra's unraveling is atypical. We read about situations like that in the media because it's not the usual. But its pattern is tragically common. Trauma takes a hold and won't let go. Human beings no longer have the ability to adapt to new circumstances. They become, yes, what is called "stuck."

The classic example of that are the professionals who lose big jobs. Even if they land another lucrative influential position so many parts of them remain frozen in time. 

How to break free? That's what the Tarot's Eight of Cups is about. Some call it The Walking Away card. I find it more useful to approach it as The Walking Toward. That's not easy because uncertainty is ahead. The past, no matter how horrific, is a known. 

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