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Major Arcana · Trump XV
The Devil
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightAttachmentCompulsionA willing chain
↓ ReversedLoosening chainsBlind spotsA smaller hold
What it means
↑ Upright
Whatever binds you here does so partly with your consent. The two figures chained to the Devil's altar wear their chains loose enough to lift off, and that is the attachment in question — a habit, a want, a bargain or a bond whose pull feels stronger than you. Name the chain exactly, notice what it gives you, and test whether you can take it off.
↓ Reversed
Either the grip is slackening and the chain can be seen for what it is, or the hold has slipped out of sight, where it binds more quietly. Seeing it is the first step to getting free; the second is not trading it for a smaller one. Be honest about what still pulls at you, and loosen it one link at a time.
What's on the card
A goat-headed figure with bat's wings crouches on an altar, an inverted pentagram on its brow, its raised right hand the reverse of the Hierophant's blessing and its torch turned down to the earth. Waite likens the chained man and woman to Adam and Eve after the Fall, the pair the Lovers shows in the garden; the small horns on their heads are commonly read as a sign that they are coming to resemble what holds them. Their master, Waite adds, will not be master forever.
Waite's meaning, 1910
Upright
Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality; that which is predestined but is not for this reason evil.
Reversed
Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.