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The The Devil card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A horned figure perches on a block above two chained figures — and the chains around their necks are loose enough to lift off.

Upright

  • Attachment
  • Compulsion
  • Appetite

The chains are the detail the card is built on: they are not locked. Traditionally the card of the attachment you keep choosing, and it invites you to look at what the arrangement gives you as well as what it costs.

Reversed

  • Loosening
  • Reckoning
  • Release

Reversed, the classic reading is the chain being examined, loosened or stepped out of — and the plainness of seeing how it was fastened.

About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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