The Devil

Overview

Dependence, hidden gain from what looks like a problem. The card shows: you stay in a situation not because you can't leave, but because something in it gives you what you don't want to lose. The chains in the image aren't locked.

Reversed

Liberation begins. You see the mechanism of dependence and are ready to exit — but the process can be painful, because the gain was real. Alternative: deeper into the same dependence with denial of it.