Tarot for Beginners: A Guide to Psychic Tarot Reading, Real Tarot Card Meanings, and Simple Tarot Spreads (The Divination Series: Tarot, Runes and More)

by Lisa Chamberlain

The Tower card signals transformation, the shattering of illusion, and sudden change. This kind of transformation is abrupt and may be unsettling or even downright frightening. The Tower is associated with disaster, surrender, sudden endings, and egotism. It may mark the loss of a position or some other change with enormous implications. However, a literal event is not always indicated. The real meaning in this card is in the shattering of old constructs as the light of truth and higher consciousness prevails. Those at the highest points of realities created under false pretenses have the furthest to fall. Upright, The Tower can be read as a sudden shock or loss that creates great insecurity: the collapse of an ideal or a relationship. What you have fabricated falls down, and there is little you can do to avoid the situation or repair it. But you will gain new wisdom from the situation, which you can use in the future. When this card appears, it’s always good to remember the old saying: “Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” The Tower reversed can point to an avoidable disaster that is at least somewhat of your own making. Fear of change, resistance, dishonesty, or willful oblivion may be aggravating a situation and placing you in danger of losing everything. Do what you can if there’s still time. If not, you will at least have the experience of seeing your worst fears realized and learning that life does go on. No matter what happens, a current struggle will have...