A young traveller steps toward a cliff with eyes raised, not down.The FoolLightning strikes a tower and knocks off its crown; two figures fall headfirst, and the crown was never part of the structure to begin with.The Tower

Card combination

The Fool and The Tower

A leap and a collapse, and the reading turns entirely on which came first. The tradition treats this pair as the deck asking whether you jumped or whether the ground went. Both are real readings and they call for opposite responses.

Together

A leap and a collapse, and the reading turns entirely on which came first. The tradition treats this pair as the deck asking whether you jumped or whether the ground went. Both are real readings and they call for opposite responses.

In love

Read as an unguarded entry into something that then came apart, or as a structure collapsing and leaving somebody unexpectedly free. The pair says nothing about fault.

In career

The unproven venture that failed, or the failure that made the venture possible. Associated with people who found out which one it was considerably later.

The advice

Work out the order before you read anything else into it. A leap followed by a collapse is a lesson; a collapse followed by a leap is a response, and only one of them is a mistake.

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