The Dreaded Tower Card
Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 20 Dec 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.
| imagoddess |
20 Dec 2002 |
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Well I performed a reading and received the dreaded "The Tower" card as an outcome. I would like to hear how some of you intepret this card and or some experience you have had with this card!
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| RedWood |
20 Dec 2002 |
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This is a great card...Change will be occurring! Maybe a bit drastic..but it is change...Usually to my experience for the better.
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| Alex |
20 Dec 2002 |
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imagoddess42283
there are many past threads about the Tower...take a quick look at previous ones, they might give you an idea of what people have been saying.
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| tarotbear |
20 Dec 2002 |
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The Tower is a card of change, as are many others in tarot. There are different degrees of change and different kinds of change.
The Hanged Man is in suspension. He is being given an opportunity to affect the change he is in by being given a different perspective. Whether the change is good or bad is immaterial, however, he does have some input into that change.
Death is a card of permanent and lasting change. Many people think this is a card about dying, but it is a card about the death of a previous way of thinking or existing. No matter what happens, life is changed and you cannot go back to what you were. What people also miss is that Death can herald a wonderful and exciting change...but you can't go home again.
The Tower is a card of sudden, unexpected, and drastic change so dramatic and shocking that it will shake your foundations. There is no way to prepare for the change or what will happen afterwards...but that, too, can be masking something wonderful. Perhaps you buiilt your Tower on the incorrect basis and it cannot stand. Only in destruction will you ever 'see the right.'
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| imagoddess |
20 Dec 2002 |
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Thank you Alex for directing me to the "search" engine, however, I already performed a search. As a newbie, I am still finding my way around this site. Anyway, I am going to post my reading to the my readings forum, which I should have done originally. Thanks All!
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| Shadow Wolf |
23 Dec 2002 |
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The tower is a card of sudden , often violent change followed by
a stunning revelation or a long needed awakening. The change
shakes you up so much that you actually gain a new way of viewing things.
So, like I've been saying all along--no good cards, no bad cards just the truth that we need to hear !!!!!
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| jmd |
24 Dec 2002 |
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Thanks for the link to one of the earlier threads, Karenwhe. For those interested, there is also the thread in the Historical & Iconographic Forum on XVI - La Maison Diev.
Irrespective on how many times this may have been discussed, I always find that new insights result when we look at the card anew. I for one had, until imagoddess42283 posted this new thread, missed the earlier one Karenwhe linked (there are always so many wonderful concurrent threads occuring!).
The card, for me, often signifies the consequences of any choice made: that the previous must now undergo radical change. Though this may be experienced in a brutal manner, it is usually one of liberation from the bonds of outworn forms.
Given that I also (as I have at times posted) tend to pair the cards according to their Roman numeral similarity - ie, I/XI, II/XII, III/XIII, etc), I see a close connection between VI - the Lover and XVI - the Tower: the young man, having chosen his lover over the establishment of his mother's home, has his world tumbled as he leaves with his new love to make their own life. The establishment of the Crown of the Mother is assundered by the arrow, become a lightning bolt, from Divine decree.
Historically, I do think that the depictions and titles for this card are quite disparate and important. For example, 'La Foudre' (Thunderbolt), 'La Maison Diev' (The house of God) - or, as this is at times claimed to be a modification of 'La Maison Diable' (House of the Devil), 'La Torre' (Tower) all exemplify aspects of importance - and very worthy of further discussion.
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| temperlyne |
24 Dec 2002 |
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For me personally the tower represented freeing myself from the armor I had build around myself. I had always been afraid to get hurt and never let anybody get close to me and eventually you can get very lonely behind those walls. The tower showed me it was time to break down the walls and enter the world without fear. It was one of the scariest things I ever had to do, but I'm still greatful every day. After all, there only wonderfull cards after the tower and I slowly made my way into the light and eventually into the loving arms of the universe.
The tower is a libarator not a destructor IMHO..
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| Major Tom |
24 Dec 2002 |
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I recently stumbled across a very positive potential meaning for the Tower:
"A joyous tower moment is childbirth".
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| HudsonGray |
24 Dec 2002 |
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Everything about the tower means you need to adjust your life around whatever 'drastic event' it represents. This can mean bad (as most people automatically assume) or for the good. For instance, you could be moving, which means finding new grocery stores, a new way to work, new schools for the kids, etc. Or a new love in your life, which you have to do the foundation work on establishing the compromises, etc.
There's good & bad in the tower--but whichever it is, you'll ALWAYS be shuffling parts of your life around what it indicates.
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| Ophiel |
24 Dec 2002 |
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Nobody said it, but THE TOWER is like a phallus, and THE WORLD like a vulva. In between the two, you find the Star (Spirit), Moon (Soul), and the Sun (spiritual Ego) and somehow JUDGMENT fits in there. Crowley portrayed the idea of THE TOWER as the phallus in the Thoth deck.
The male orgasm is rather forceful, even violent, which is portrayed on the card's imagery (well, MOST card's imagery, at least the older style images.) This sort of energy is necessarily "violent" to propel life-starting stuff. As Above, so Below would apply here and in the human union, one sees a microcosm of spiritual truth.
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| Kitty |
26 Dec 2002 |
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Th Tower came out for me in the Self postion of the Celtic Cross a week ago.
Hhmmmmm I thought - what is shaking my world- nothing at the moment.............
Then yesterday, I found out I am pregnant, its has shaken my world, but as some others will mention with the Tower, the outcome can be positive or negative, for me I feeling strangely at peace.
The Tower shows radical changes, I believe the effect it has is up to you, you can embrace it as a challenge or you can crumble with the rumble at the bottom of the mountain.....
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| Alex |
26 Dec 2002 |
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yet the Tower is a very mild description of what's in wait for you, as far as LIFE CHANGES! It would take a whole deck of towers to even approach it, symbolically!
My bests for you and your baby.
Alex.
Originally posted by Kitty
Then yesterday, I found out I am pregnant, its has shaken my world, but as some others will mention with the Tower, the outcome can be positive or negative, for me I feeling strangely at peace.
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| bec |
27 Dec 2002 |
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16 - the tower:
The Tower show us the dangers in building up illusions and make believes that wont be able to stand trial with real life.
What I miss in the Waite-Smith card as I also has illustrated in the Tower I did my self, is the fog that needs lifted in order to see the foundation the Tower – our life – is build upon.
When The Tower shows reversed to me it shows some one who is creating chaos just for the sake of it, that they like building up illusions and then all of a sudden tare them down, just to see the reactions they will get from this.
It also tells me, or assure me, that once The Tower has tumbled and dealt with the immediate chaos that inevitable will bring, lighter times are ahead, you will get the opportunity to do some spring cleaning in your life and environment, take only with you what is real and what is good for you, leave the broken bricks and build some new ones, that will give you a more solid and healthy foundation.
Blessings
anja
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The The Dreaded Tower Card thread was originally posted on 20 Dec 2002 in the Using Tarot Cards board, and is now archived in the Forum Library. Read the active threads in Using Tarot Cards, or read more archived threads.
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