The Empress and The Tower

What was grown, brought down, and the tradition is careful not to overstate it: The Tower removes a structure, and The Empress is not a structure. What is lost here is the arrangement around the growth rather than the growth itself, which is a distinction worth holding on to.

Associated with a home or a settled situation coming apart while the affection in it survives. The pair separates the two clearly.

Read for a productive setup dismantled by something external. The pair notes that the capability is not what was destroyed.

Work out what was actually lost. It is usually the container rather than the contents, and those are replaced differently.