From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
The Tower
Meanings
The mighty can fall. No riches can protect us from the hand of fate. We build our walls, but they can crumble. A storm will strike. Chaos, upheaval, massive and unexpected change.
Reversed (?)
A House of Cards. The higher you build a façade, the weaker it is and the easier it will fall when calamity strikes. It is time to tear it down and start again with a stronger foundation.
Description
A castle's tower burns fiercely and begins to crumble. A giant golden crown falls from the top of the castle, and a small black devil flies off into the stormy sky. In the foreground, a red-haired man and youth in brown robes weep and pray.
Artwork
- Stormy sky: BEERSTRATEN, Jan Abrahamsz, Village of Nieukoop in Winter with Child Funeral, 1600s, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
- Fire: BOSCH, Hieronymus, Hell, 1500-04, Palazzo Ducale, Venice.
- Large crown: VERONESE, Paolo, Juno Showering Gifts on Venetia, 1554-56, Palazzo Ducale, Venice.
- Castle: BOUTS, Dieric the Elder, The Execution of the Innocent Count, c.1460, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
- Praying man: MASSYS, Quentin, Christ on the Cross with Donors, c.1520, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp.
- Weeping youth: HEMESSEN, Jan Sanders van, The Lamentation of Christ, 1500s, Rockox House, Antwerp.
- Devil flying: BOUTS, Dieric the Elder, Hell, 1450, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille.
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