Thursday, December 21, 2023

Tower Card

Often people associate Tower card in Tarot Major arcana with various disasters and such. However, that is too simple of explanation. 

Tower here is not just any tower, but rather tower or power, as indicated by the crown on top of it. Or perhaps the guard tower that guards the system. The lightning strikes at the top and causes the people to fall. That is change in power and collapse of the old regime.

If Wheel of Fortune indicates change as a basic principle, then Tower is the moment of change. Revolution, coup or even death of the old ruler. It is similar in character to Grand Conjunction, where Jupiter and Saturn are conjunct on the sky. That too indicates change on the top.

While tower indeed shows people falling, that means that those who served the old regime will not stay in power. Similar how end of communism and Nazism lead to widespread attempt to remove all officials, associated with an old regime.

However, Tower can also mean a liberation. Those oppressed under old regime will be freed. For example, France's Ancient regime held its numerous opponents in Bastille in order to preserve their grip on power. During the revolution, crowds stormed the Bastille and freed the people held there. That is a Tower event. Liberation of Nazi concentration camps as well as fall of Berlin Wall and Eastern Block is a similar event. So is the collapse of the August Coup.

I guess fall of feminism is on the cards next.

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