An old man on a bare peak holds up a lantern containing a six-pointed star.The HermitLightning 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 Hermit and The Tower

The figure who left the building drawn with the building coming down, and the tradition puts the two images together on purpose. The Hermit is on a mountain with a lamp; the Tower is a struck structure with two figures falling from it. The pair reads as a withdrawal that turns out to have been well timed.

Together

The figure who left the building drawn with the building coming down, and the tradition puts the two images together on purpose. The Hermit is on a mountain with a lamp; the Tower is a struck structure with two figures falling from it. The pair reads as a withdrawal that turns out to have been well timed.

In love

Associated with having stepped back from a family or a relationship shortly before it broke. The pair does not credit that as foresight.

In career

Read for having left an organisation before its collapse. The pair notes the complicated feelings of watching from outside.

The advice

Getting out early is not the same as having known. Take the luck without building a story about your judgement on top of it.

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