Hi everyone
Just thought that I would add my 2 cents in this, if you don't mind. I did have a bit of a read through the posts, although didn't read through ALL of them completely.
If you notice on the card, the loop in the chain around the necks of the man and the woman is actually big enough to take it off over there heads. So it is in terms of chained voluntarily so to speak. What is needed, is that for the querent to notice what is the reason for them to be kept in this self-imprisonment, which is where the torch comes in. And once they have noticed or acknowledged what is keeping in that self-imprisonment that they need to work at what is keeping them there, or in another way, to deal with this. By acknowledging and dealing with what is kept them in self-imprisonment they would be able to use the "energy" in a positive way to move forward.
So, in other words, when this card shows up then this would indicate that you are preventing your own move forward by the darker/shadow aspect of yourself. More than likely this is something that is a result of conditioning by other people that would affect that your self-esteem, self-confidence and self-worth, making you full of doubt and fear, amongst many other things. So what this card is saying that you need to discover the reason for the negative emotions and self-talk, deal with it, so that these emotions and self-talk can be turned around to be positive instead.
I think this makes sense. (<---, classic example!!!!!!!!)
Bec
