THE TOWER Tarot Card Explained ☆ Meaning, Secrets, History, Reading, Reversed ☆

HOW TO READ THE TOWER TAROT CARD

CHAPTERS -

00:00 - Intro
00:39 - The Fool's Journey
02:42 - Description part 1
06:05 - Lightning Flash
06:35 - Description part 2
08:00 - What Does It All Mean?!!
09:42 - Reversed
10:13 - Korrespondence Korner
10:34 - Outro

The appearance of The Tower relates to destruction. This can be in a literal sense, meaning the physical things around us but, as Waite himself says ‘It is idle to indicate that it depicts ruin in all its aspects, because this is self evident.’ Personally I'm more interested in how the card relates to the tearing down of the constructions of our mind. This can apply to certain beliefs that we’re hanging onto, or things which we think we know with absolute certainty but suddenly crumble in the blink of an eye.
By far and away the biggest structure that we build in our minds is our ego, this forms our whole identity and our sense of self importance. Now if we look at the characters on the card we can see that they're very well dressed and on top of the Tower there’s a crown that’s being dislodged by the lightning strike. This seems to hint toward the concept of pride.
Now it’s interesting that The Tower follows immediately after The Devil in the Fool’s Journey as one aspect of The Devil can be the illusions that create an inflated ego. But, as the saying goes; ‘Pride comes before a fall’. The walls of the ego can come crashing down just as easily as they’re built up.
Anyone who's experienced anything like this will tell you that it’s one of the most unpleasant experiences that you can have, but when we look back at it from happier times we often see that it was a necessary process that allowed us to evolve and move forward into a place of understanding.

Reversed

Waite says that the reversed the card means the same as the right way up ‘but to a lesser degree’.
However, he also mentions imprisonment, which can indicate the failure of built up energy to release itself. Sometimes avoiding a mental cataclysm can mean a missed opportunity for growth and progress.

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BOOKS MENTIONED -

THE KEY TO THE TAROT by Arthur Edward Waite, Rider
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pictorial-Ke...

78 DEGREES OF WISDOM by Rachel Pollack, Thorsons
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seventy-Eigh...

THE TAROT by Paul Foster Case, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tarot-Wisdom...

THE MYSTICAL QABALAH by Dion Fortune, Red Wheel/Weiser

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LIGHTNING Video by Vimeo-Free-Videos from Pixabay
ASTEROID Video by Dirk Sander from Pixabay
10 OF CUPS Image by Melissa G from Pixabay
CONFUSION Image by Arya Widia Putra from Pixabay
DION FORTUNE theosophy.wiki
HAPPY SAD Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay
RUINED HOUSE Image by Yolanda Coervers from Pixabay
LIGHT BULB Image by Christian Dorn from Pixabay
ZODIAC Image by George Chernilevsky from Pixabay
Tower of Babel Phillip Medhurst, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
RUBBLE Image by Hans from Pixabay
CLOUDS Image by Dimitris Vetsikas from Pixabay
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LIGHTNING FLASH Image by David Mark from Pixabay
ENLIGHTENED WOMAN Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay
IDENTITY Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
FALL OFF CLIFF Image by Lothar Dieterich from Pixabay
WOMAN IN TURMOIL Image by kalhh from Pixabay
WOMAN STARS Image by Kati from Pixabay
RUNNING ON THE BEACH Image by John Forster from Pixabay
GOLD WOMAN Image by Alana Jordan from Pixabay
ELECTRIC BRAIN Image by Alana Jordan from Pixabay
PRISONER Image by 愚木混株 Cdd20 from Pixabay
VAMPIRE Image by NoName_13 from Pixabay
MARS Video by Renato Peixoto from Pixabay