Centered amidst a black sky, lightning strikes a stone tower. Flames erupt from the top of the tower and from out of the building's windows. There is a giant skull that the Tower was built on representing the humanity of the fallen. Atop the edifice, a parapet represents the crown which as been dislodged by the thunderbolt and is being lifted up and off the top of the tower. Billowing clouds of gray smoke are everywhere. All measures were taken to be isolated from war, pestilence and disease by building a remote tower. And yet calamity still struck.
The crown is moved only when a new king is about to be crowned. One era ends, another era begins. The rose represents new growth. The Tower card means that change all around you is more likely to be of the permanent kind. Any attachments to the past that you have will only hurt your fall when you land in the new way the world will be.

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Arcana Macabre Tarot