We’re almost at the finish line with our Draft Drops—and up next is the debut of our new series, Dragged and Divine. Until then, here’s one of our final posts from the Draft Drops collection.
“We opened the door and let the devil inside…” — from The Fall of Ruby Franke
So I was watching Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke, and this one line from the husband jumped out at me. He said:
“We opened the door and let the devil inside.”
And whew. I had to pause. Because—what is it with people always blaming the devil?
Now listen, I’m not saying there aren’t real, dark forces that move through this world. There absolutely are. But we give way too much credit to the devil sometimes. Like, people will really commit to some terrible behavior and then be like, “The devil made me do it.”
In the tarot, there’s a card called The Devil card. It shows two people with chains around their necks—but those chains? They’re loose. Loose enough that they could remove them any time they want. But will they?
That’s always stuck with me.
Because when we say things like, “The devil made me do it,” we’re acting like we don’t have choices. Like we don’t have agency. Like we aren’t divine beings with the power to stop, reflect, and move differently. But that card reminds us: the chain is loose. You can take it off.
Sometimes “the devil” is just the name we give to our own unhealed parts. Our shame. Our patterns. Our refusal to take responsibility. Our comfort with giving our power away, because it means we don’t have to face our own reflection.
So when I heard that line—“We let the devil inside”—it triggered these thoughts. Because what if the real issue wasn’t an external devil sneaking in... but an internal one already living rent-free?
What if healing isn’t about casting something out—but calling ourselves in?
We make mistakes. We hurt people. We take wrong turns. That’s part of being human. But we can recover. We can repair. We can learn how to move differently. It doesn’t have to come with all the spiritual dramatics.
Sometimes, we just need to admit:
“That was me. I did that. I don’t want to do that again.”
And then do the work.
The devil didn’t make you do it. The wound did. The habit did. The part of you that’s still scared, still small, still trying to protect itself—that part did it.
But the good news?
That chain is loose, love.
You can take it off anytime.
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Would love to hear your thoughts. Do you think we give the “devil” too much credit when we’re really just dodging our own accountability?
xoxo,
Goddess Thea
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