In Sanskrit, this is a house where you accumulate in the basement everything that you want, but cannot fulfil because of the conventions of society, culture, civilization.
All of it is continuously accumulating and indirectly affects all your actions, your life. You do not directly face this – you have pushed it into the darkness — but out of darkness, it still manages to influence your behavior. It is dangerous to keep all this suppression inside of you. There is a possibility that the tension from suppression will reach the tipping point and a person will go crazy.
Madness is nothing else but all these suppressions, reaching the boiling point when you can no longer control them. However, in our society, madness is acceptable, while meditation is not. But meditation is the only way to make you perfectly sane.
The human figure on this card is literally tied in knots. His light is still shining inside, but he has suppressed his vitality, trying to meet so many requirements and expectations. He has given all his energy and vision in exchange for being accepted by the forces that imprisoned him in the first place. Cracks from as if a volcanic eruption that diverge to the edges of the card signify the danger of suppressing your natural energy.
The real message of this card is to find a healing outlet for this potential explosion. It is important to find a way to release any tensionand stressthat may be accumulating inside of you right now. Beat up the pillow, jump around, get away from people and shout loudly into the empty sky –do anything that will shake your energy up and allow it to move freely. Do not wait until disaster strikes.