Saklas

Artemis
Aug 21, 2025
2 min read

An androgynous figure emerges, flickering and coalescing as if to avoid definition. His form beguiles - swathed in glittering fabrics that cling like oil to skin, the demon Saklas skips as if in mockery of joy through the dream space like a cursed-deity whose mocking laughter serves to remind that exorcism works on demons but not on the ghosts they leave behind. His body bends gender into theatre—hips too sharp, lashes too long, smirk too knowing. Skin like stage makeup, cracked and radiant. Strangely grotesque and yet magnetic, Saklas dazzles, disturbs, and dares you to laugh—because in that moment of discomfort, the mask you wear might just slip.

Oracle Message

Saklas rises from the velvet rage of the rejected—glamoured in defiance, forged in humiliation. He is the guardian of the grotesque, the protector of those cast out by god, kin, and culture alike. Born of the Monstrous Feminine and twisted through queer anarchy, he laughs not to dismiss pain, but to survive it. When this card appears, ask not what you’ve denied in others—ask what you’ve exiled in yourself.

Saklas comes dressed in contempt and clown paint, but underneath the performance is something rare: a protector born of pain. He is both the unintegrated anima’s rage demanding retribution, and the exile boy masculinity abandoned—for daring to reflect what it could not face.

Upright Meanings

Gender defiance as truth; sacred rage, shadow desire as truth seeking; dark comedy revealing darker truths; Purposeful discomfort to reveal biases.

Reversed Meanings

Toxic shame; egoic spiritual bypassing; performative morality or masculinity; shadow projection; denial of attractions, desires or fantasies to maintain homogeneity.