Waxing Gibbous, 98% lit: the Moon is in Aquarius

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Kitsune Tarot
The Tower, from the Yōkai Tarot

Painted for this deck by Ada & Claude

Yōkai Tarot · Major XVI

The Tower

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Arcana
Major XVI
Deck
Yōkai Tarot
Yes / no
No

Upright

Raijin's bolt splits the pagoda and what was hollow burns fast. Sudden truth demolishes only what couldn't hold you. Jump clean; the storm is on schedule.

Reversed

Shoring up a struck tower, or trembling at aftershocks already past. Stop re-entering the building to save the wallpaper.

Draw with this deckAll 78 cards

The Tower, painted three times

All three decks run the same seventy-eight cards, so this one has two siblings: the same card, painted for a different world.

The Tower, from the Kitsune TarotKitsune TarotLightning splits the pagoda and the foxes leap. What falls was already hollow; the strike only proved it. Sudden truth is a violent kindness: jump clean.See this one  →The Tower, from the Fill the Void TarotFill the Void TarotThe Christmas tree caught mid-topple, ornaments scattering like meteors, and she rides it down with serene amber eyes, entirely at peace with her work. It is coming down. Some of that was you, and the truth underneath is worth the mess.See this one  →

Further reading

The same card, painted three timesThree decks, 234 paintings and seventy-eight ideas between them. What actually changes when the Tower is a pagoda struck by lightning, a storm on schedule, or a cat riding the Christmas tree down.