
The devil card represents blindness and misconceptions. The black background is the lack of light or understanding. The 2 humans, a male and a female are loosely bound to the stone pillar. They could easily remove their bindings, but stay there by will. The pillar that they are chained to is half of a square, representing the half-truths that they bind themselves to. The torch that the devil is holding is pointing down, and the flame is eating at the torch in a wasteful way, not giving off any light.
The card denotes materialism / physical attraction / animal instincts / vice / lust etc. the appearance of the card in a reading suggest the presence of our passion or obsession. It suggests for us to remove the bad trait that is stopping us from growing or achieving our goal.
(Last Updated on : 3/03/2009)