hipghost:

The Devil is related both through his cross sum (sum of the digits) and his iconography with Key VI, The Lovers. Both cards speak to
our drives; the drives that take us out of the
garden. The central character in each is winged; each lives in the
archetypal ether. Each is crowned: the Angel in The Lovers with fire,
The Devil by a Pentagram
and ram’s horns. Above each rides a naked man and a naked woman. But in
The Lovers, there is still some sense of newness, wholesomeness, and
hope; in The Devil they are chained by the neck and partially
transformed into creatures of the underworld; transformed by their taste
of the darkness; by the fruit of the underworld.