Major arcana
The Tower
The Tower represents the sudden break of a structure that can no longer hold what it contained, and what appears when it gives way.
The Tower represents the sudden break of a structure that can no longer hold what it contained, and what appears when it gives way.
Lightning strikes the top of a crowned tower and detaches its crown. Two figures fall through the void, and the structure breaks apart while flames come out of the windows.
What gives way all at once reveals what the facade kept hidden, and the shock hands back a useful truth. The space left is worth more than a maintained appearance.
Holding a cracked structure out of fear of the void prepares a wider fall. What holds by habit gives way all at once, without warning.
RWS. Arcana XVI. The motif takes up Babel and its ruin; Pamela Colman Smith throws bodies out of the building, one of them wearing a diadem.
Look at what cracks without patching it. Ask yourself what deserves rebuilding rather than repairing, and sort what supports from what decorates.
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