Major Arcana · XV
The Devil Tarot Card Meaning
- Arcana
- Major Arcana
- Number
- XV · No. 15
- Yes or no
- No
Upright meaning
Attachment · temptation · bondage
There is something you can't quit even though you know better. Check whether greed or fear is holding you captive.
Reversed meaning
Release · breaking free · awareness
You are starting to break free of a habit or relationship that bound you. The chains are looser than you think.
In a yes-or-no reading
- UprightNoThe card says it won't be easy as things stand.
- ReversedNoThe card says it won't be easy as things stand.
Its place in the Major Arcana
The 22 cards of life's big currents and turning points. They are read as one person's journey from 0, The Fool, to 21, The World, and the more of them in a spread, the more the matter goes beyond personal choice.
Cards 15 to 21 are the stage of becoming one with a larger world through collapse and awakening, arriving at hope, rebirth and completion.
The 22 Major Arcana
- The Fool
- The Magician
- The High Priestess
- The Empress
- The Emperor
- The Hierophant
- The Lovers
- The Chariot
- Strength
- The Hermit
- Wheel of Fortune
- Justice
- The Hanged Man
- Death
- Temperance
- The Devil
- The Tower
- The Star
- The Moon
- The Sun
- Judgement
- The World
Draw your own
Now that you know the card, think of one question and shuffle the deck yourself. Which of the 78 cards comes up is decided the moment you shuffle.
Meanings follow the widely used Rider–Waite tradition, and the pictures are simple designs drawn for this site. Please treat tarot as a light-hearted aid to reflection.