The Unexpected Bill

If you are like me, you would have shuddered when turning over this card. It really isn't one of my favourites, since it has predicted some mighty explosions in my past quite accurately. We still haven't heard anything back from our solicitor about buying the bungalow. My parents were hoping something might come in the post today, so after telling my mum I had received The Tower as my daily card, she said that she hoped it had nothing to do with that.

In today's card, Favole is expelled from Ezequiel's castle. We understand that her feelings for this immortal spectre are so strong that she wishes to share in his misfortune and drink in his sentence. It is instinctual as a vampire for Ezequiel to want to give her an eternal death, but his love is far stronger, which causes him to banish her from his court. There is something unexpected about his reaction, which I guess threads the story into the interpretation of The Tower. However, on looking through the book 'Stone Tears' (the first Favole graphic novel in a series of three), I found another painting which might have been more appropriate. Rather than a castle, the picture shows an actual tower. Beneath it is a ship in danger amongst stormy seas. Would this not have been more fitting for the sixteenth trump?

I don't know if it is because I haven't been eating bread and starchy vegetables, but I felt really alert yesterday. I can't remember feeling that zingy for a while. My mum and I persevered through our first day on the Dukan Diet and surprisingly didn't feel hungry or crave the things we might usually. The same goes for this morning. We got up and she made us some Oatbran porridge. It kept us full for our trip into town and we have just had lunch. I don't feel the urge to pick at food at the moment, which is good.

When we got home, the postman came. He didn't bring anything from the solicitor but he did deliver a £65 national insurance bill that I wasn't expecting. I'd say that that is my Tower experience for today.


Illustration from The Favole Tarot and Stone Tears by Victoria Frances