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PARA-388-Tarot-The-Tower-Card: Scevola

Caretaker Status: Unknown

Affiliated companion(s): none

Level 6 - abstract
Word: Tarot (The Tower)

Origin:
Tarot: 1590s, from French tarot (16c.), from Old Italian tarocchi (plural), of unknown origin, perhaps from Arabic taraha "he rejected, put aside." The deck first was used in Italy 14c., as playing cards as well as for fortune-telling. The tarots, strictly speaking, are the 22 figured cards added to the 56-card suits pack.

Old English torr "tower, watchtower," from Latin turris "a tower, citadel, high structure" (also source of Old French tor, 11c., Modern French tour; Spanish, Italian torre "tower"), possibly from a pre-Indo-European Mediterranean language.Meaning "lofty pile or mass" is recorded from mid-14c. Also borrowed separately 13c. as tour, from Old French tur; the modern spelling (1520s) represents a merger of the two forms.

Definition:
The Tower card depicts a high spire nestled on top of the mountain. A lightning bolt strikes the tower which sets it ablaze.
Flames are bursting in the windows and people are jumping out of the windows as an act of desperation.
They perhaps signal the same figures we see chained in the Devil card earlier.
They want to escape the turmoil and destruction within. The Tower is a symbol for the ambition that is constructed on faulty premises.
The destruction of the tower must happen in order to clear out the old ways and welcome something new. Its revelations can come in a flash of truth or inspiration.

Magic Status: 1 - Neophyte
Tier 1 - Paralogos' fin, tail crest, and crack markings shift over time.

Wisdom Status: 0 - Unaware