Upright
A bind you are partly choosing. The chains in the image are loose — the card describes dependency that could be walked away from and is not.
Major arcana 15 · Earth
The Devil
Reversed
Recognising the trap and beginning to leave it. Or the opposite: sinking further while insisting you are fine.
ArcanaMajor
Number15
ElementEarth
PlanetSaturn
Yes or noNo
Keywordsattachment, compulsion, materialism
Where it sits in the sequence
The major arcana run 0 to 21 as a progression — the Fool's journey from unguarded beginning to completed cycle. Card 15 falls in the final stretch, which deals with forces larger than the individual.
Data, not interpretation
Hard facts about the The Devil
Golden Dawn sign
Capricorn
Position in the deck
15 of 21
Odds of drawing it
1 in 78 · 1.28%
Card of the day in 2026
5 times · 1.37%
Reversed on those days
0%
The astrological attribution is not a modern invention. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn fixed it in their Book T in 1888, assigning every major arcana to a planet, element or sign, and every numbered minor to a ten-degree decan of the zodiac. Waite and Colman Smith built their 1909 deck on that framework, which is why the correspondences still hold today.
The card-of-the-day figures are exact, not estimated. Our daily draw is derived from the date rather than randomised per visitor, so the whole year can be computed in advance — something no site with a random draw can tell you.
Days the The Devil is the card of the day in 2026
9 Jan · 20 Feb · 12 Mar · 29 Apr · 6 Oct
The image
What is on the card
A horned figure sits above a naked man and woman held by loose chains around their necks. The chains could be lifted off.
Every detail in the Waite-Smith deck was placed deliberately by Pamela Colman Smith in 1909, and reading the picture usually gets you further than reading a keyword list. Notice what the figure is doing, where they are looking, and what is behind them.
The Devil in love, work and health
In love
Attachment that has become dependency. Passion mixed with something less healthy.
In career and money
A job you stay in for the money, or ambition that has started running you.
In health
Addiction, compulsion and habits that have stopped being choices.
Reading it in a spread
A card means different things by position. In a past-present-future layout, The Devil in the past describes something already worked through; in the future it describes a direction rather than a fixed outcome.
Read it against its neighbours rather than alone. Two cards from the same suit intensify each other; a major arcana beside a minor tells you the situation is larger than the everyday.