Welcome to the forty-second card pull for the Mundane Magic project!
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Every Monday, I pull a card from an old Rider Waite tarot card deck I purchased years ago in Salem, Massachusetts. Once a card is chosen, it will not return to the deck. The goal: 78 cards, 78 stories.
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On to today’s tarot card pull!
The card pulled today was The Tower!
For my initial reaction to the card, check out the podcast, Episode 42.
First impressions from the image: There is a dark background, a night sky, blue fading into an even darker shade. There is a tower built on the top of a very angular mountain with sheer cliffs. There are a few clouds in the sky. We can see the reflection of flames and fire, coming from the tower, on the surface of the clouds. There are a few open windows in the tower, and we can see flames coming out of them and the top of the tower. The tower looks like it’s being struck by a lightning bolt. This lightning bolt is yellow, zigzagging across the sky, and has an arrow shape to the end that is coming in contact with the top of the tower. It appears as if it has blown a crown off the top of the tower (or is that just a failure in perspective?).
There are also two people falling out of the tower. One appears to be female, and has a crown on their head. One appears to be male, and does not have a crown (is the crown at the top of the tower theirs?).
It also appears to be raining fire. In addition to the flames that are coming out of the tower windows and the top of the tower, there are smaller, flame-like, droplets falling down toward the earth below.
There is a lot going on here! In addition to the illustration, we see the Roman numeral 16 at the top of the card.
The Rider Waite interpretation of The Tower is as follows: Misery, distress, ruin, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception. Reversed: According to one account, the same in a lesser degree, also oppression, imprisonment, tyranny.
Wow! The meaning of this card leaves a lot of room to experiment with, to write about this week. There are a ton of distressful things going on in the illustration and in the implied meaning of this card.
I’d love to hear your thoughts! What does The Tower inspire in you? What kind of story do you see developing?
Now what?
Our forty-second card has now been drawn! I’ll be working on an original story during the week. I can’t wait to see what develops!
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Until next time, let’s make some magic!