The Tower card immediately reveals disaster in the form of fire and destruction in your material world. If you are falling as the figures in the card, you have exhausted intellect and you only perceive emotional distress. You get a big dose of reality when you experience devastating material loss.
However, the Tower is not all grim news. The image is grim, but the potential is profound. Out of loss you can build what you desire, without any attachments to the past or to others. You can leave behind or ignore negativity, and you can choose instead to help others who have experienced their own losses.
So just how do you choose to avoid evil and negativity? First, explore your feelings. Identify islands of love within you and enhance this feeling. Instead of aspiring to wealth, inspire yourself with plans for the future. This card can signal the entrance of a new lover into your life, just a sit signals understanding of the principle of love.
Lightning has always been experienced as a symbol of divine energy, a numinous force emanating from God. It represents naked power and illumination in its most primitive and immediate form.
- Sallie Nichols
Nature is no respecter of persons, and she strikes down both the high and the low, kings as well as subjects, who transgress her law.
- C. C. Zain
Destruction is the foundation of existence,
And the tearing-down thou seest
Is but the assembling of material
For a grander structur
- Paul Foster Case
Sources
Zain, C. C., The Sacred Tarot. Los Angeles, The Church of
Light, 1936.
Nichols, Sallie, Jung and Tarot:
An Archetypal Journey. York Beach, Maine, Samuel Weiser, 1980.
Case, Paul Foster, The Book of Tokens: 22 Meditations on the Ageless Wisdom. Los Angeles, Builder of the Adytum, 1968. Quoted with permission from Builders of the Adytum, 5101 North Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA. 90042; http://www.bota.org/. Permission to use Builders of the Adytum images in no way constitutes endorsement of the material on this site.
De Angelis, Roberto, Universal Tarot Deck. Torino, Italy: Lo Scarabeo, 2003. Lo Scarabeo has graciously granted permission for the use of the Tarot images on this site. Copying the images without their permission wuld be a violation of copyright law.
