The Tower
The Tower indicates sudden, often traumatic change that disrupts the status quo and can feel like disaster. It suggests that this upheaval may have arisen from prior actions or inactions and often arrives before one is prepared. Despite the shock, the card emphasizes that you retain agency in how you respond and can make necessary changes moving forward. When reversed, the Tower points to changes you can cope with or that the worst outcomes have been avoided.
Keywords
16. The Tower
Meaning:
The Tower is usually interpreted as disaster, but we need to carefully consider the real meaning of this card. The Tower signifies abrupt change that has come before you prepare for it. You may feel that you did not have a choice in what happened, but your actions or inactions brought it about. You do have a choice about how you proceed to make the necessary changes.
Upright:
Disaster, abrupt change, a serious accident, losing job or financial downturn, at a relationship crossroad, breaking through illusions.
Reversed:
Changes that you can handle, the worst-case scenario has been averted.
Visual Description
A tall, multi-tiered tower built of timber and scaffolding sits atop a rocky pedestal and is violently breaking apart. Chunks of wood and debris fly outward while smoke or steam curls from openings in the collapsing structure. A narrow wooden walkway leads up to the base of the tower from the foreground. A jagged, lightning-like line is visible near the top where destruction seems to originate; no people are present in the scene.
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