Tarot Card Meaning: The Tower

The Tower in a Tarot Card Reading

The tower card is one of the most powerful cards of the major arcana series of tarot cards. This card represents a moment that is defining in one’s life, with almost everyone experiencing a tower moment in their lives. The Tower represent sa moment of upheaval, a destruction of current conditions, the floor literally falling below your feet.

The tower also symbolizes the home and the person itself, so it could mean life as they know it is ending. But, as we learned from tarot cards earlier in the series, no card is just a bad omen, all ends are beginnings, and everything has to die in order to be born again.

When the tarot card comes up in a reading it may mean that you are experiencing or about to experience such an event that will literally change your life the way you know them. It could be physical or mental, losing a home, a job, a relationship, natural disaster or other circumstances that are out of your control.

But, fear not, as the tower card is a harbinger of good news, because this event will challenge you out of your comfort zone and the old ways you used to do things. The tower card blesses those who do not give up in the face of adversity, those that understand that life hasn’t ended even if it had changed drastically. Any person is faced with a choice when experiencing such a moment, they must choose of to give up and dwell is sorrow or they can accept the reality and see how they can act within it to come out better.

Many times we see people experiencing such tower moments, like loss of a child or discovering a terminal illness, or suffering a debilitating accident. Some of them see that as the end of them, and fall into a depression or wallow in self pity and inaction. Others embrace the situation once understanding the inevitability of it, and they do what they can to build a new reality. This can be a paraplegic turning to paralympics due to a challenging rehabilitation process, a cancer patient enduring treatment and improving their habits. Take the opportunity the tower gives you, and make changes in your life, so life doesn’t force you to change. If you stay in that job you hate, life may have to cut you from it if you refuse to do it in time. This is why the tower card follows The Devil card in the series, the devil is the attachment and the tower breaks it off. The tower is a card that represents Mars the plant of action, and it shows us that when we stand still in life and just endure our situation, Mars itself, and the whole universe will act on our behalf and make us move and change.

The Tower is associated with the planet Mars, this means that the qualities of the planet are embodied in the archtype of the card that correspond to it.