The Tower
The Tower represents disconnection between soul and body, earthly and spiritual realms. It depicts confusion and lack of direction in life, showing structures built without spiritual foundation that are destined to collapse. The card reveals a state of being lost without support or ideas, manifesting as destruction in one's life. It calls for courageously dismantling life structures that have become prisons and releasing trapped energy within.
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Symbolism
The Tower here shows the disconnection of soul and body, earthly and spiritual. The staircases go in different directions, as a reference to Maurits Escher's engraving 'Relativity.' Essentially leading nowhere. Some of the characters are even locked on their own 'balcony.' We can see our Fool, and characters from the Chariot, as well as characters from the minor arcana. The elements of water and air present on this card show the destructive power of thoughts and feelings not backed by action and matter. The Tower introduces confusion - at first glance you can't understand what it's about. No collapsing tower, no lightning. The yellow flowers are connected to the material world, and the blue ones to the spiritual. The main idea is wandering through our life, inconsistency. This is the citadel of our material state, and if there is no spiritual support, then you get a house on a swamp, a house without foundation, which will sooner or later collapse.
Card's Message
A state without support, without ideas, absence of spiritual platform - a person is confused in their situation and this is reflected in their life through destruction. Lostness. Cannot see the path of movement or development. Relationships are confused, people don't understand why they are together, what for - the vector points toward separation or divorce. Career - if a person is an architect or builder, it will show that the person is engaged in this, and the meaning here doesn't apply. If not, then where they are, that work, system, is now undergoing serious changes, everything is turned upside down, there are layoffs, management is changing, and they are in the epicenter of these events that will affect them. Money - not the best card, as the situation is not destructive but critical, debts, credits, echoes the 5 of Pentacles in Waite.
Advice
The advice from this card is to destroy structures in your life without fear that have become a prison for you over the course of life; Release the energy trapped within you.
Visual Description
A tall stone tower with a skull-like crown at its summit dominates the scene, its battlements shattered and wooden beams collapsing. Two human figures are falling headlong from the structure while fragments of masonry, chairs and blue petal-like shapes scatter through the air. Stairs and walkways twist around the tower and lead to doorways and windows; a purple-draped archway is visible near the base. Flowers and foliage frame the lower edge, and the image as presented is upside-down, so the tower reads reversed in this view.
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