Symbolon Deck

28 GOLDEN CAGE

Brief Description

The Golden Cage represents relationships built on possession rather than love, where material security comes at the cost of freedom. This card reveals the hollow nature of arrangements based on control, jealousy, and ownership of one's partner. Both parties suffer in such dynamics - the possessor loses genuine intimacy while the possessed loses autonomy. It warns against trading independence for material comfort and reminds us that true love cannot be bought or confined.

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Keywords

Attitude toward partner as prisoner, partner as property, jealousy, buying a partner, devotion.

Card Description

Astrological Correspondence

Taurus/Libra

Planets

Venus

Archetypes

Beloved + PUER (Couple).

Image

Double Venus - Taurus and Libra aspects. The card is connected with the sense of ownership. The possessiveness of the Beloved/Taurus is transferred to the Couple/Libra. The woman in the cage looks more like a Queen. It seems the golden cage is her voluntary choice.

Material Exchange

She strived for material goods and received them, but in exchange for freedom. She is very sad, but since everything in life must be paid for - the Beloved becomes a thing, property. The man, having obtained the woman, also experiences no joy, because there is a cage between them.

Symbolic Elements

Even the rose bush is partially behind the bars of the cage. There is neither trust nor human closeness in the card. There is no trust, human closeness, although it's quite possible this is a married couple, just that the woman married for money or status.

Alternative Interpretation

The card can also mean 'call girl'. The man uses her to satisfy sexual needs: the key to the lock is in his hands, the rose bush (sexual symbol) is outside the cage. Power is in the partner's hands.

Symbols and Colors

Cage - barrier, absence of intimacy.

Card Meanings in Spreads

Positive meanings: patience. Negative meanings: jealousy, distrust, limitation.

Card for the Day

The day will be connected with concluding some contracts or agreements that will later limit the person.

Necessary Actions

What will come easily today, without tension: concluding contracts or agreements.

Conclusions to Draw Today

One must respect another's freedom. Love cannot be bought with money.

What I Can Learn Today

Jealousy and distrust are poor companions in love. If a close person limits your freedom in exchange for golden mountains, the choice is always yours.

How to Behave Among My Circle

Today you should hide or conceal something from those around you.

Motive

Distrust of people, of the world. From this arises the desire to subjugate someone. The aspiration or necessity to own, to possess something.

Life Example

For example, sometimes a person is not free because they are forced to do hateful work to pay off a large loan.

State

Depressed. The person experiences distrust toward the surrounding world.

Fear and Limitation

Fear of losing something. Limitation in one's actions.

Process

Limited by certain frameworks, conditions.

Relationships

In relationships there is inequality, distrust. One partner is jealous of the other and therefore limits their freedom with certain agreements. They treat their partner as their property. The other partner submits to them.

Mutual Suffering

Both are unhappy in this situation. There is no joy in life. The agreement in this situation serves as a barrier between them. Sometimes it appears as a woman for hire. Practice shows that in mature age, roles often change.

Role Reversal

The woman ends up outside the cage, and the man inside. She holds him tightly with money that he himself earns. He tries to escape from her, but she binds him with obligations.

Warning

Jealousy and distrust are poor companions in love. Restrictions bring no joy. There is a risk of losing independence, becoming a prisoner.

Advice

Before concluding a contract, one must think carefully whether it will bring happiness.

Protective Limitation

It's necessary to limit, fence off, close, hide something precious to protect it. Limitation in this case will work as protection from weakness.

Result

There is one, but you won't be able to use it to the fullest.

Joy from Achievement

You won't be able to get joy from what you've received.

Additional Notes

Intellectual exploitation. Can also relate to work.

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✍️ Deck author(s): Peter Orban, Ingrid Zinnel, Thea Weller

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