Sudden collapse of something built on a crack. Shock and revelation, and that is mercy, not loss.
A reckoning delayed, disaster narrowly avoided, or change resisted at a cost.
“THE TOWER.—Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin. It is a card in particular of unforeseen catastrophe. Reversed: According to one account, the same ina lesser degree also oppression, imprisonment, tyranny. 17. THE STAR.—Loss, theft, privation, abandonment; another reading says-hope and…”— Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911
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