Shadowscapes Study - The Tower XVI

The Shadowscapes companion book describes the seed growing over centuries into a mighty tree... and then "destroyed in an instant, in a deadly arc of blindingly beautiful, blazing lightning."

Meaning: "Catastrophe, sudden change, crisis, releasing all emotion, suffering a blow to the ego, revelation, and seeing through illusions."

The castle of treehouses! Who wouldn't want to live in such an amazing and fanciful home? It must be the king's home, so grandly build on the highest point. (And the tower top looks like a crown.)

How sad to see it torn apart by lightning! You can tell that things will never be the same again.

Meanwhile, more modest treehouses on lower limbs seem to be protected by lightning rods. Reaching higher means putting more at risk, but when you're in the middle of things it's not always easy to know where to stop. Enthusiasm and hubris can lead us to go too far, and it's not until disaster strikes that we realize how risky our course was.

The picture tells quite a story even without any people visible. Is this the only card in the deck with no people or animals?