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Feelings of inferiority can lead to enslaved infatuations and codependencies. The drawing of this card could indicate such feelings in you or someone close to you.

A classic example of human bondage is the person in a relationship with someone he considers much better looking. Feeling inferior to the beloved, he enslaves himself, encouraging the other to manipulate the asymmetry of power.

Are you in a situation where you find yourself compromising your inner dignity? Are you in a situation where you are asking someone else to compromise their inner dignity? There are many types of human bondage, but all of them involve a compromise of inner dignity.

As Annie Lenox put it in her classic song Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

The novel (and excellent movie based on it) Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham, is about this sort of relationship.

Another type of human bondage is the wage-slave scenario where a job demands that you compromise your inner dignity in return for a paycheck. Most of us not born into extreme wealth have experienced this form of bondage.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance about the subtle and not-so-subtle forms of human bondage.