Prepare for the worst, as the financial catastrophe that awaits will be entirely out of your control. If you still have the resources, now is a good time to start putting some money aside. At it’s most negative, the Tower portends failure and bankruptcy, perhaps the result of repeated bad investments. You need to be especially careful and prudent with your spending. This could involve being promoted to a position you’re scarcely able to navigate at first but which promises to bring great reward once you’re over the learning curve. It often indicates a lack of job security or actual job loss.Īt the same time, it indicates that a stressful, highly emotional change is about to take place. CareerĬareer-wise, the Tower denotes working in a negative or hostile environment, or employment that is potentially dangerous, such as firefighter, underwater welder, or soldier. If you’re single, the Tower could infer that you’re feeling especially empty and lonely as a result of your relationship status and still suffering abandonment issues carried over from your last serious relationship. Similarly, if you’ve been cheating on your partner, you’re about to get caught and forced to face the consequences of your infidelity. It usually portends something unexpected and disastrous is about to happen, such as discovering your lover is having an affair with one of your closest friends or siblings. The Tower in a love reading is rarely a positive sign, rather it signifies an unhealthy relationship primarily marked by conflict. The unpleasant truths you’ll soon face should serve as a catalyst for your emotional and spiritual awakening, which will prove to be crucially important to your well-being moving forward. Once you get over the shock of it, you will emerge from the experience much less naive and far better equipped to deal with the world. You will eventually find that this change or series of changes turns out to be positive. While the Tower typically represents disaster, emotional strife, and sudden change so intense it disrupts the foundation of the person or organization in question to their core, it also serves as warning that there can be no more hiding from the unpleasant realities of life you’d prefer not to face. However, they are not always welcome as they tend to be painful in their brutal honesty, and as such, are secrets a Tower person is only too happy to reveal. The truths offered by Tower people are often genuinely enlightening. They tend to be tactless, rude, and quick to reveal secrets entrusted to them, particularly should they hold hidden truths that could be explosive and damaging to the situation, body or organization at hand. Put bluntly, Tower people are disturbers of the highest order. This is an individual prone to emotional outbursts and unnecessary drama who enjoys rocking the boat at every opportunity. The Tower as a PersonĪs a person the Tower denotes an iconoclast who is forever eager to disturb the status quo. The lightening moves from left to right, a symbol of the subconscious mind merging with the conscious mind, together denoting a sudden, and unexpected, spiritual awakening. The grey clouds symbolize a universal secret that is in danger of being exposed, whereas the lightening bolts symbolize truth. There are 22 separate flames in the illustration, which represent the 22 Major Arcana cards, all falling to the ground alongside the humans who have leaped from the inferno. It needs to be destroyed so it can be built anew on more solid footing. As such, the tower represents an ambitious project that was nevertheless constructed on an irrationally conceived plan. A circular crown will never fit properly on a square. The Tower illustrated in the Rider-Waite deck is square with a crown that’s been knocked off by the lightening strike. Flames shoot out from the same windows the people trapped inside are desperately jumping from, vainly hoping to escape the turmoil and destruction within for the danger - and certain injury - that lies below. The Tower card depicts a tall church tower, nestled on top of a mountain, that’s been struck by lightening and set ablaze.
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