KEYWORDS - The Tower

Time of Crisis. Crashing Down or End of Something. Unexpected Challenges or Endings. Breaking Away False Facades. Letting Go of What no Longer Serves Us. Sudden Change. Upheaval.'

The Tower

The Tower card in the deck is not only visually challenging, but also represents a significant moment of collapse or disintegration. It symbolizes divine judgement with the presence of lightning, instantly transforming everything. This image reminds us of a tower that crumbles unexpectedly and violently, often due to a catalyst, ending relationships, jobs, or situations in an abrupt and irreversible manner. However, despite its destructive nature, the Tower can only dismantle what is false or artificially held together. It becomes a breaking point where the effort to deny an unsustainable truth becomes too burdensome, forcing us to let go. Through this release, we discover the hidden gift within the Tower – it liberates us by allowing what is no longer true or useful to fall away. The flames further contribute to its purifying effect. Ultimately, the outcome is one of liberation and freedom as we are relieved from pretending or struggling to maintain something that no longer serves us. The Tower never destroys anything that is healthy, solid, or still filled with vitality.

The Tower Reversed

Reversed or with challenging cards around the Tower, this could represent being stuck, the ‘tower moment’ is elusive. Holding onto something that has passed its time but we are unable to break free. We are either resisting change, that something is stopping change from occurring naturally or that it might not yet be time.