The Redeemer Archetype

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Upright Meanings: doormat, curses, collapse/breakdown, overly dramatic, attention seeker, dead end, ruin, failure, hitting a wall, badmouthing, martyr, inability to cope, bitching, attack, pain, playing victim, severing ties, exaggeration, nail in the coffin, betrayal, rock bottom, bitterness, goodbyes, enemies, defeat, exhaustion, backstabbing

The Redeemer indicate a major disaster of some sort. It shows that a certain force of extreme magnitude has come to hit you in your life – one that you may have not foreseen. There is a sense of betrayal that is indicated here, for the character is stabbed in the back. This seems to be a reminder that despite how much we try, we cannot control everything – there are things that are beyond our ability to change. Here, this situation is unavoidable.

Reversed Meanings: surviving disaster, being saved, courage, positive energy, worst is yet to come, good health, relapse, things getting better, being beyond help, total ruin, pulling yourself together, learning from past hardships, fears coming true, over the worst, escaping ruin, despair, rising above problems/haters/bitchiness

When we see any version of The Redeemer The Redeemer the feelings are powerful. Whether reversed or uprightThe Redeemer the card signals the finality of defeat. There is no way to avoid this tragedy – it has happened over a long course of events that have been a long time coming.