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The Tower Card
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The Tower is all about fortifying ourselves with notions that seem to offer security, and protect our vanity, but ultimately keep us from growing. The destruction is the universe acting to disrupt that, in a way that FEELS LIKE catastrophe but is ultimately about liberation – one doesn’t actually lose anything but a false perspective.
It’s not a “bad” card – but it does signal a disruption of what one is used to or maybe dependent on.
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Many times. A couple of examples:
I drew it once the day before a person who I had removed from my life called me for the first time in years. I had to confront the work I had done on myself very suddenly. When someone you used to love and need is gone from your life, it’s easy to feel like you are doing ok. But when they offer a way back, it requires a lot of strength and self-awareness to know that they are bad for you and that the offer is poisoned.
I drew it once about a month before I was fired from my job, and in that intervening month, I had a coworker who was going around saying bad things about me, my boss was yelling at me all the time, and I was barely sleeping.
Both examples I think show how the Tower is not a “scary” card, but it is scary. Stripping the whole obligatory positive spin on things for a moment, both events were incredibly traumatic to me. But also, if they hadn’t happened, they would have to have happen someday, and by dealing with the issue, I was able to evaluate what I needed and extract myself from very unhealthy patterns / situations. But that’s not to say that the experience is just good. Ignorance can be bliss, and if things had never come to a head in either of those situations, maybe I would be happier, if a little less resilient. The one benefit to living only one life is that every decision you make is necessarily the right one and every event is necessarily positive, because there is no alternative to which to compare. So you can only see the ways you survived and grew from various experiences and not what you gave up.
Also to be fair, I’m sure I’ve drawn it a number of times when nothing happened, but I don’t remember those times. And I don’t draw it often, relative to other cards. If you read enough, though, you will get every cards sometimes.
Sometimes you need to cry, fight, let go, or die (metaphorically). It’s ok to not be ok. It’s ok to be scared. But on the other side of whatever happens, you will look back and be able to count up your XP gains, so to speak!
Good luck with your tarot journey 💜✨
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I draw the tower card in the day that my girlefriend’s dog passed away, it was a really sad day
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There so much context in readings. Apart from what everyone else mentioned, the Tower could also be you bringing down the tower to it’s foundations, e.g. you make a decision / pull the pin on something etc that shocks others.
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I usually take that as a “warning”.
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Teh Tower is anything built on a weak foundation; or an ‘act of God. Shock and awe – life changing. It doesn’t have to be anything bad, btw. It has even been known to represent life changing Sex. 😉
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What was the question you asked? What was the context?
The Tower is about beliefs based on a shaky foundation. It’s finding out something you believe to be true has no basis in reality. It’s all about the person’s reaction to this finding out.
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Yes. The Uranian lightning struck tower always brings sudden changes and it can bring disasters in its wake. I have drawn it several times and yes, things happened to abruptly alter my life. From losing my home a few times to deaths around me. My rising sign is Aquarius and my chart ruler, Uranus is in my 8th house of death. My life has always had sudden beginnings and sudden endings.
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A little over two weeks ago I pulled the Tower card repeatedly. I had this uneasy gut feeling that something big was about to happen. Same day, my mother was admitted to the hospital with cardiac failure. A couple of days later my mother went into full cardiac arrest.
At the time I had gotten a telephone call from the hospital that my mother was suddenly seriously worse. Since I live in another country, I couldn’t rush to be with her.
I pulled a card while waiting for some more news. I have a Radiant RWS deck with me. I pulled the lovers – the angel standing over the two people. I was certain that my mother was dead, that the angel had come and gotten her.
An hour later I got a facetime call from my sister who lives in the same city as my mother. She was at the hospital with mom and my mom was alive and awake. The doctors had been quick to rescussitate her. I realised then that the card didn’t mean that an angel had come to get her, but that she has a guardian angel watching over her.
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I drew the tower for myself. When the event happened this is how I felt. I all felt like the ground was ripped from underneath me. I was free falling through the layers of hell and after each layer, came another. It was never ending. Everything I thought was true was a lie. I spent 10+ years living in a delusion while all the facts were in my face. That was 2 years ago and I still haven’t recovered.
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Last week I had a really “off” feeling that something wasnt right with this guy I have been seeing. Not bad in terms of health/safety but just that something wasnt going too well. Without reaching out to him, I pulled a card asking about him. I got The Tower. Of course I shuffled and tried again ( ha ha .. ) and this time I pulled TWO cards.. what did I get? The Tower and 5 of pentacles. I finally texted him .. he just lost his job. oof.
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i pulled the tower card yesterday but nothing horrible happened HOWEVER i like to think its not “oh something horrible will happen”, just something is going to be torn down to be rebuilt. i did have a pretty shit day at work because i also drew the five of cups and pentacles. but i did have a long discussion with my partner about boundaries which i think reflects that
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I pulled it during a time where I was going through a difficult situation at work. It wasn’t that I lost my job or anything, but I associate it to my ideals being challenged and telling me that I need to go through this to actually learn the ways of my workplace.
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It came up for me right after I bought a pack of tarot cards. I saw it as my belief system falling. I hadn’t believed in tarot readings or stuff like that and now I’ve found I can see with some detail what’s going on in the lives of strangers thousands of miles away.
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I kept drawing it for three months before my very young cat (2 years 9 months) unexpectedly had to be put to sleep as he had lymphoma. I haven’t drawn it since he died and it was devastating at the time for me, I was shattered.
