Cardiff Castle of Crossed Destinies

The Page of Wands is followed by the eight of pentangles, four of swords, The Chariot, The Hierophant, nine of cups, ace of cups, five of pentangles, ten of pentangles. In a very short time Bute can tell that this is the education of an architect. Here he is at the very beginning of his apprenticeship surveying a building; the greenness of his surveying rod mirroring his own greenness. He learns the craft: eight of pentangles; he studies Gothic architecture, four of swords; travels to see Egypt and Ancient Greece and Rome, The Hierophant. He also travels in Turkey, eight of cups, and Venice, ace of cups. He takes on the commission for Bute, three of pentangles. The architect does not need money and spends as much of his time designing his own house, ace of wands, as he does Cardiff Castle. The whimsy and richness of his life is seen in the Page of Cups: Edmund Gosse described taking tea with Burgess; 'He used to give the quaintest little tea parties…the meal served in beaten gold, the cream poured out of a single onyx, and the tea structured in its descent on account of real rubies in the pot." But his lifestyle was also destructive, the architect would die in his house, The Tower.

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