Card 19 / 36
Tower หอคอย
- Playing card
- 6♠ Spades
- Tone in the original text
- Depends on position
- Other names
- Haute tour (FR) · Turm (DE)
Keywords
- institution
- authority
- solitude
- long life
- boundaries
In a modern reading
Large institutions such as government, corporations, hospitals or courts, and the distance they create. Personally, it can mean standing alone or setting firm boundaries. [13][14][11]
Text on the 19th-century card
Printed on a French Petit Lenormand (Geûens-Sea, Bruges, c. 1895–1901), Bibliothèque nationale de France [1]
Annonce une longue et heureuse vieillesse, mais entourée de nuages elle annonce une maladie, même selon les circonstances aussi la mort.
Announces a long and happy old age, but surrounded by clouds it announces illness, and depending on circumstances even death.
As a house in the Grand Tableau
Position 19 of the Grand Tableau is the House of the Tower. A card that falls here is read in the context of institution, authority, solitude.[15][16]