About the Card
English Name(s)
The Lightning, The Tower, The House of God
Correspondences
- Grand Etteilla: Card Number 19
- Tarot de Marseille: Trump XVI
Image Description
A burning and crumbling castle decorated with a diamond pattern. A tower tumbles from the top where colorful flames erupt, and flames also stream from the sides, through the large arched gate, and from two solar discs in the upper corners. Two Harlequins are fallen in a heap in the foreground.
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Meanings
Upright
Destitution, indigence, poverty, scarcity, need, necessity, distress, grief, pain, torment, suffering, affliction, unpleasantness, calamity, adversity, misfortune, bad luck, divine punishment, setback, disgrace, severity, rigidity, harshness.
Reversed
Prison, imprisonment, detention, arrest, captivity, slavery, servitude, subjection, constraint, oppression, tyranny, yoke, chains, dungeon, dependence.