The Tower, La Sagitta, La Maison Dieu (TM)

• La Sagitta (the arrow), the flame, god's finger, La Maison Dieu (god's house)
• tower, lightning, 2 reversed figures falling to earth
• MT → 2 types
  • earlier versions show a tree, shepherd and flock of sheep. tree is struck by lightning.
  • later versions include tower being struck by lightning
• sudden, unpredictable
• chaotic, ruinous forces
• tower of babel, wrath of god, decent into misunderstanding
• complete, radical, disruptive change
• escaping from prison, escape through catastrophe
• fire

• wolf's bane. extremely toxic, burning, constrictive sensation proceeds death. used in chinese and ayurvedic medecine Aconitum
• fox glove. toxic, induces vomiting
• sequoia. large, towering redwoods. Sequoia (genus)

• beige
• white (lightning, explosions)
• lava red
• black

note: work in progress for PARN. not general reference

major arcana