I agree, but . . .
'Lo finn,
Look, it would be absurd for me to disagree with what allibee, Trogon, and, above all, MeeWah have told you ('specially 'cause I don't), but . . .
You say this is the "outcome" card in a relationship spread. I simply don't believe you can read a single card in a spread -- repeat, in a spread -- and say what it means.
Otherwise, you see, you lay out the cards in any spread, and nail down the "meaning" of each one, but they are like islands in a vast ocean that have no means of communicating with each other.
If one could understand the story, and determine its meaning, by simply looking at a single card, then why bother using a spread at all? It's as if I told you the final score was 7 to 6. Yes, but, who was playing? What were they playing? What? What?
So, in a spread, in isolation, the Devil card, means -- nothing. Nothing at all.
Some things it COULD mean: It could mean lust, gluttony, excess, yes, addiction, something holding one back, a signal that attitudes must be changed. It could mean unhealthy greed. It could mean a dark obsession that undermines the body or spirit. It could mean a signal to look at desires that have been repressed or one is afraid of. (Yeah, like sex, which can be both feared and desired.) It could be a lesson, the old ying/yang thing, that light and dark must co-exist.
If I tell you all it is raining in my living room, what could it mean? Could mean there's a hole in the roof. Could mean a tornado blew the roof off. Could mean the pipes in the apartment above me burst. Could mean I'm delusional. Could mean I'm a storyteller, a liar. Could mean . . .
finn, I suggest you go way, way down in the forums to the one called "Your Readings" and post the entire spread, along with such information as you deem important. There are people there who enjoy reading for others, and some, I suspect, are very, very good. Then you'll find out what the Devil means.
Talisman