76 CAPTIVITY

Excessive pressure, thrown stone, tension, threat of explosion, pressure.

Capricorn/Aquarius

Saturn/Uranus.

Elder + Fool.

The card depicts a prison with a sad Fool behind bars. External conditions restrain the Fool's initiative and inner needs. Internal tension builds as a result.

Lack of freedom, objective limitations.

Bars - restraining external conditions. Fool - desire to break free.

Positive meanings: many plans. Negative meanings: pressure from external circumstances. Lack of freedom, objective limitations. Dependency, lack of freedom.

A sea of desires, but for some reason their fulfillment is impossible.

What will come easily today, without tension: Submit to external circumstances.

The more you shake the bars to free yourself, the greater the pressure exerted upon you.

With the right mindset, you can learn to accept limiting external circumstances with ease. Freedom is conscious necessity.

You will be pressured either by circumstances or by people around you. It is necessary to accept this and surrender.

To justify one's inaction through external conditions.

Internal limitation. Bound hands, constraint. Lack of freedom in expression. Renunciation of desires.

Difficult for development. Halt due to external reasons.

Joyless. For one of the partners, this relationship feels like captivity. It limits and suppresses them. They feel dependent on their chosen one, lacking freedom. Possible escalation of conflict.

Environmental limitations that are difficult to overcome.

Limit yourself. Show inner wisdom.

Limitation, captivity.

What limits: too serious an attitude toward life, conservatism, hyper-responsibility. Bear without complaint what cannot be changed (Publilius Syrus).

Sadness, melancholy, regrets, despair - these are misfortunes that are transient, not taking root in the soul; and experience teaches us how deceptive is the bitter feeling under whose influence we think our troubles are eternal (Jean-Jacques Rousseau).

Internal limitation. Freedom is conscious necessity. What limits: too serious an attitude toward life, conservatism, hyper-responsibility. Internal prison, lack of freedom. Constraint. Had strict parents.