| Perhaps considered one of the most negative cards in | | | | However, true freedom lies in the act of surrendering. |
| the Tarot deck, The Tower is the card of chaos and | | | | Instead of trying to will our lives in certain directions, we |
| upheaval. Its contemporary tarot card meanings often | | | | have the opportunity to merge with our higher |
| refer to disruption, instability, transformation and the | | | | consciousness and let the Universe be guide us. There |
| inevitable truth. When the Tower card appears in a | | | | is nothing more liberating than relinquishing our concept |
| tarot reading, one can anticipate the total | | | | of control. On some level, we must come to accept |
| deconstruction of one's beliefs system. The Tower | | | | our powerlessness and finite natures. |
| brings forth an unacknowledged truth. It is an indicator | | | | Symbolically, the Tower represents the power of the |
| that one's faulty perceptions have caused the creation | | | | Divine. This is represented by the piercing lightening bolt |
| of an unreliable foundation. It is a warning that one's | | | | that knocks down the top of the Tower. Here it |
| thought processes are not in alignment with a higher | | | | reminds us that we do not have the ultimate authority. |
| truth. It always signifies the commencement of an | | | | Our concept of power comes from our ego. In Tarot |
| emotional purging. | | | | reading, The Tower suggests that there is something |
| However, there is much more to the Tower card than | | | | much greater than our selves. There is a Universal law |
| the concept of destruction. In truth, the Tower is a card | | | | that we must honor and respect. As we take this into |
| of liberation and freedom. It is there to ensure you that | | | | consideration, we find ourselves humbled. Our old ideas |
| if you choose to shed yourself of your faulty beliefs; | | | | no longer work for us. We must, in the end, be willing |
| you will experience an inner freedom. In its place | | | | to come to terms with the fact that our concept of |
| comes a new level of consciousness. This heightened | | | | self power and control is unreliable, ego-centric, and |
| awareness is a direct result of new channels of | | | | faulty. |
| communication with the higher mind or divine spirit. In a | | | | Finally, the Tower card refers to narrow-mindedness. |
| Tarot reading, the Tower elucidates the parts of our | | | | The Tower informs us that we have outgrown our old |
| own inner beings that we have been reluctant to | | | | ideas. Our past perceptions and value systems have |
| examine. It is this denial that causes our actions or | | | | become too small-minded. We are, at last, ready to |
| behaviors to be in conflict with our personal truths. In | | | | expand our perspectives. As we begin this process, |
| the end, when we find the courage to look at our | | | | we come to learn that we were prisoners of our own |
| misconceptions, we are freed. | | | | making. The Tower liberates us from self-imposed |
| What is so frightening about the Tower Tarot card is | | | | incarceration and ensures us that a false self-image |
| the sense of inevitability. During a Tarot reading, the | | | | will be replaced with self-knowledge. Although there is |
| Tower informs us that disorder and confusion can not | | | | a great deal of fear and chaos with its arrival, in the |
| be avoided. There is the need to delve into the | | | | end, we always discover a new freedom. |
| unknown. The unknown represents our greatest fears. | | | | For more on Tarot Readings and Tarot Card |
| It is here that we must surrender to uncertainty. | | | | Meanings please visit Carolyn's blog. |