![]() ![]() It may become obvious to you what the Tower represents. ![]() Remember that some people can be affected by a tarot reading for the rest of their life.įeel your way around the reading to establish the querent’s situation. Are they mostly positive, neutral or negative? Don’t blurt out the first thing that comes into your head. Allow the influence of the other cards to permeate into your consciousness. Establish whether the card is in a past, future or advisory position. If you are doing a reading for a client or a friend and the Tower appears, take a deep breath. They are safe, they have each other and there are stars glistening in their children’s eyes. They turn to each other, their faces stained with soot. Everything they built, everything they worked for has gone. Her whole life begins to reveal itself before her, like a beautiful star-embroidered blanket of possibilities.Ī family stands at the roadside, watching their home go up in flames. Suddenly a sense of freedom envelops her. While she recovers in hospital, she is informed that he is likely to be imprisoned. One night he beats her so badly that neighbors call the police and he is arrested. They never work so the small amount of confidence she once had has evaporated. ![]() She adopts certain attitudes and behaviors to try and placate him. Her husband verbally undermines her and physically attacks her. ![]() Each night he stands beneath the stars, gazing in wonder, knowing in his soul that life is eternal.Ī woman is stuck in an abusive marriage. He discovers that material goods, which he strived for all his working life, are nothing in comparison to the new riches he finds in remission, or even during his remaining weeks. He undergoes treatment, makes new friends and learns the value of his family. The man who states that a diagnosis of cancer felt like the end of his life, but in fact, turned out to be life-affirming. While it is difficult to welcome such cataclysmic change, if you can hold the idea that life begins to improve afterwards, then perhaps you will be able to grab onto a strand of hope. If there was something we could have done, then we should have already done it well before the card appears in a reading. The reason that the Tower seems to be such a negative card is because there is almost nothing we can do to prevent the occurrence of whatever it foretells. The Tower may be an actual event or it could be internal, such as a breakdown or a sudden life-changing revelation. The influence of the Tower makes itself felt when we get stuck in a rut, or so wedded to our egos that we are unable to understand that the situation has been caused by our own thoughts, feelings and actions. Then he turns, looks towards the horizon and sees a brilliant star arising. He stands there, witnessing the destruction of his self-inflicted prison. His carefully woven ego, that once appeared to be crafted from brilliant threads of thought, has been torn into useless tatters. His belief system, carefully crafted throughout his life journey, has been broken into shards. Suddenly he is struck by a revelation – he is still here, he can start again, he has lost nothing – because nothing material is of any value. He stands there, mourning the disappearance of all he has known all that has gone before. The Fool is suddenly catapulted into awareness. Time for a Tower moment! The heavens open, the cataclysm begins, or the breakdown happens. He is not going to do what needs to be done of his own volition. Time passes and still the Fool remains tethered. Something needs to happen to break him out. He has been under the influence of the Devil and shows no signs of recognizing his own convoluted thoughts have been the problem all along, keeping him in an unhealthy holding pattern. The poor old Fool – though we should understand that he is a young spirit, a work-in-progress, moving ever upward on a spiraling journey towards enlightenment, where he finds that, in fact, the journey never ends and he has to start again, each time at a higher level – has been stuck for a while, entangled in his own egotistical desires. ![]()
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