XVI · Major Arcana
The Tower
Bala Lake
The structure that could not be reformed and so was removed in a single night.
Upright
Something built on a bad foundation is coming down and cannot be propped up. The destruction is not punishment, it is correction. What survives will be what deserved to.
Reversed
Not used in Raynebow readings - reversals are off in the product. Shown here for reference.
A collapse narrowly avoided, or delayed at increasing cost. Change resisted only arrives harder.
Keywords
upheaval · sudden change · revelation · collapse · liberation by force
The Welsh story
Tegid Foel held a court of great luxury and greater cruelty beside the valley that is now Llyn Tegid, ignoring every warning sent to him. At the feast for his first grandson a harper was lured outside by a small bird and led up the hillside; he slept, and woke to find the valley filled with water and the court gone, his harp floating at the shore. The lake is the largest in Wales and the drowned lights are said to show on a full moon.
On the card
The nest, not the tower.