Reading Tarot Card–Tower
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How to read tarot cards series–Tower (Major Arcana)
I think when it comes to reading tarot cards, no card scares an indivual more than this card. It implies that false structures, false intuitions and false beliefs will come crashing down, suddenly and violently. What an individual believe to be true might turn out to be false and that person may be in for a rude awakening when the final truth gets revealed.
Illustration of the Tower card in the Rider Waite Tarot Deck
Tarot Symbol
A tower is on a rocky and shaky outcropping. There is a powerful bolt of lightning and people were falling from the tower.
Tarot Story
The Fool leaves the Goat God and comes across a magnificant and grand Tower. Actually, the Fool had contributed to the building of this tower when he was just embarking on his journey to discovery and he had wanted to prove himself as a better individual than the other men.
Arrogent men still live in this tower and they are a bunch of individuals who are convinved of their rightness. Upon seeing the tower again, the Fool is reminded of his past. He thought that he has changed as an individual when he had decided to embark on his spiritual journey. However, upon seeing the tower, he realised that he had not actually changed. Though the arrogant men who live in the tower, he also sees himself. So shocked was he that he releases a shout to the men. However, the shout seems to have taken a real form and a bolt of lightning slashes from the heavens and send its residents into the water beneath.
The Tower is only rubble now. Stunned and shaken to the core, the Fool experiences shock, fear and disbelief. However, he also feels as if his inner eye has finally opened. He is no longer resistant to change and tears away all his inibitions and fear. He dissolved his belief that opposites can never be merged and he also shattered his ambition and desire. Now, he can really start from scratch as his soul is devoid of all the negative thoughts that had prevented him to become a new and better person.
Tarot Meaning
When the Querent gets this card, usually the Querent can be expected to be shaken up. The card reminds the Querent that it is time to see the truth and not to refuse believing in the truth. It is understanderable as some of the beliefs onw have are so hard-core that it will take immense effort to overthrow them. However, remember, only when these false beliefs are broken down will you have a soul to have new and real beliefs, making you a better person.
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