Major Arcana
The Tower
Upright
- ·sudden upheaval
- ·revelation
- ·collapse
- ·awakening
Reversed
- ·delayed disaster
- ·avoiding collapse
- ·fear of change
- ·inner upheaval
Upright
A shelf comes down, or a story does, the whole careful arrangement you built around the soft part of you, and now it's across the floor in dust and broken glass and you've got smoke in your hair. There's no gentle way to read this one. Only the truth that what fell was already hollow, the lightning didn't break it, it only let you see. When the dust settles, what's underneath is the thing the wall was hiding from. Hold it anyway.
Reversed
Reversed, the shelf already fell, or you're taking it apart yourself, brick by brick, on purpose. Sometimes it's the warning you finally heeded in time. Either way the wall is coming down; the only question is whose hands do it, yours or the sky's.
In the imagery
In the close dusk of the room a tall stack of shelves is struck through by a white fork of lightning, the crowning jar blown off, small flames licking from the cubbies. Dried herbs and broken pottery rain down through the candle-smoke. The ground below is bare swept wood, and the bolt comes down in the shape of a hand, the thing you didn't build right shown all at once.
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