The Tower
The Pyre card signifies powerful, often violent changes that lead to profound revelations and personal transformation. When invoked, it causes catastrophic events and chaos, urging one to face these challenges with courage to emerge stronger. Banishing the Pyre involves spiritual upheaval, encouraging deep self-reflection and embracing necessary change despite fear and resistance. The card symbolizes destruction as a path to rebirth and empowerment.
Keywords
Invoked
Catastrophe, inquisition, violent change, disruption, upheaval that brings revelation, bankruptcy, a powerful awakening.
Banished
Rising from the ashes, avoidance of disaster, fear of the change to come, freedom gained at a great cost.
Historical Context
The history of witchcraft is wrought with discrimination, violence, and murder. Convicted witches were once burned at the stake by hordes of ignorant monotheists. Although the killing of witches still takes place today in many parts of the world, most of us only deal with metaphorical pyres. The witchcraft movement today has developed the profound need to appease the monotheistic majority by whitewashing our practices and traditions so the dominant culture can feel more comfortable with our existence. But the Pyre yearns to burn. It challenges us to embrace the flames of turmoil, to breathe them in and let them ignite our inner truth. It will be painful and difficult, and it may be ruinous, but like a phoenix we rise from the ashes even more powerful than before.
Divinatory Meaning
Of all the cards the Pyre is the one to fear. When invoked, its flames consume everything around us, causing distress, upheaval, violent change, and chaos. This can come in many forms, either a literal death, extreme financial loss, divorce or separation from loved ones, or serious illness or injury. There is no avoiding the flames, you are tied to the stake, and you are tasked with facing the Pyre with courage and perseverance. Let your old life burn to ash; as painful as it may be, the ash fertilizes the ground to build a new life. The flame burns away the weaker parts of us and tempers the strong. As the material world burns away, it gives you time to focus on the spiritual; it signals a time to reinvent yourself for the better.
Banishing the Pyre
Banishing the Pyre means it is no longer burning through the physical but through the spiritual. It challenges you to question your beliefs, your morality, and your purpose in life. Is your current life driving you toward happiness? If not, you must be the fire of change. Do not resist it because at this point you have the power to become who you want to be. You resist change, and perhaps fear it, but understand it is necessary at this point. Let your instincts guide you and stop worrying about the material things around you because what you are doing now is unhealthy and hindering you. You just need to ignite the flame to escape it.
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