![]() ![]() The Tower tarot card may predict tragic or life-threatening situations that can shatter your dreams, your material goods and wealth, your current plans and goals, and even your relationships. It might show a better image compared to both The Devil and Death tarot cards but this tarot card is that also brings unfortunate news. On the physical aspect this image shows darkness and devastation. ![]() ![]() The Tower Tarot Card Meanings- Failure, destruction, trauma, chaos, misery, distress, disaster, adversity, turmoil, crisis, deception, disappointment, and confusion. Distressed people are falling, or jumping, out of the tower, one who wears a crown and one who does not. Fire is raining from the sky and setting the tower alight. A large lightning bolt has broken the tower apart, knocking aside the crown perched at the apex. So the card of the Tower signifies the relation between macro- and micro-cosm and will mean rupture, sudden disillusion, disenchantment, but also it symbolises intuition, renewal, help from above and clear insight in relation to vanity and sham projects, illusion and meaningless formalism.The Tower tarot card displays a picture of a tower on top of a mountain with dark clouds surrounding it. has put it very clearly in this quotation: "Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it." utterly fails in giving any elucidation of this relationship. The Hebrew letter Ayin is addicted to this card. ( P.), but the universal and every day significance is: the renewal of the form, or rather of embodied life, by the force of Heaven, and of microcosm by the life of macrocosm, which incidentally of course breaks up forms here and there, if they are no longer fit for survival the house of doctrine as well as every structure made by vanity, dogmatism and separativeness. the ruin of the house of life, when evil has prevailed therein" ( W.) is one of many possible occurrences it may signify 'blighted ambitions and hopes,' etc. The general meaning, however, is not incidental but essential. This may warn man, not to build upon physical existence alone or to think himself safe upon a material basis, however high and solid it may appear from a material point of view. Still Ouranos and Poseidon were known in Greece as well as Dourga and Varouna in India.Īnd the stone tower struck by a flash of lightning is another version of the legend of Ouranos mutilating his son Chronos, which means, that Heaven is not content with a body of fixed dimensions and form, nor any heavenly force with the limitations put to itīy physical authorities or architects. Later ages added very little, if anything at all, to those original explanations. "Occult explanations attached to this card are meagre and mostly disconcerting." ( W.) The reason for this is easily seen: the principles of Uranus and Neptune were not much known in antiquity save that they were the general principles of the Heavens (the Air or also the atmosphere) and the Ocean, and as such we find them in the Pantheon and in the original Tarot, not yet as the much later discovered planets, which personify these general cosmic principles. General Book of the Tarot: The Greater Arcana: XVI. ![]()
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