Interactive Tarot Online Reading for The Tower

Your Chosen Card – The Tower Reversed Thoth Deck

When reversed, the Tower implies that you may be avoiding necessary change or failing to learn from a traumatic situation. We cannot avoid the fact that bad things happen to good people, but we can take advantage of the opportunity to grow in wisdom from whatever we experience in our lives. Consider the parable of the house built on sand: ‘ a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand, and the rain descends, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon the house and it fell: and great was the fall of it’ (Matthew 7:2627, KJV). In what ways have you built your house on sand?

Keywords Reversed: Sudden upset, breakdown, crisis, ruin, catastrophe, shock, disturbing news, overthrow, destruction, elimination, trauma, defeat, distressing change, being left speechless.

Key XVI: The Tower
Myths/Archetypes: The Tower of Babel. Thor, the Norse god of lightning. Zeus of the thunderbolt. Buddha under the Bodhi Tree. Hades abducting Persephone.
Astrology: Mars, the god of wars, bloodshed, destruction. (Mars rules Aries and Scorpio)
Numerology: 7 (Chariot) = 1 + 6 (The Tower)

Element: Fire

When The Tower is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If The Tower is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Tower is trying to tell you. If you had a particular issue in mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your reversed card reading for The Tower using cards from the Thoth Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.

Here are some snippets from a few of my favorite books

Complete Book of Tarot: Without a doubt, the Waite-Smith deck, published originally by the Rider Company in 1909, has been the most popular modern deck in the English-speaking world. After leaving the Order of the Golden Dawn, A. E. Waite set out to publish a deck of his own. Working with artist Pamela Colman Smith (known as ‘Pixie’), Waite produced a unique deck that, unlike the Marseille pattern decks, illustrated each of the forty pip cards with a scene evocative of the cards divinatory meaning. It was the first deck since the Sola-Busca of 1491 to be illustrated in this fashion. The presence of scenes and characters on each card rendered this deck one of the easiest to learn and made tarot reading accessible to the masses. Many modern decks, including the Llewellyn Classic Tarot used to illustrate this text, are clones of the Waite-Smith images.

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: Lets do an experiment. Take the Tower (trump XVI) from your tarot deck. In Llewellyns Classic Tarot, the scene depicts a tower struck and shattered by lightning. Two occupants of the tower fall headfirst toward the rocks below. In mythology, the thunderbolt is a favorite weapon of the gods who evidence their displeasure by hurling bolts of lightning at mortals below. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus believed that the sky god Zeus represented the ordaining pattern of the universe and that Zeus thunderbolt symbolized divine force steering the course of events.

Elements of the Psychic World: Sir Walter Raleigh, executed in 1618 on the orders of King James I, makes an appearance now and again, and has been seen as recently as 1983 by a Yeoman Guard on duty in the Byward Tower. The bungled execution of Lady Salisbury is said to be re-enacted on Tower Green on the anniversary of her death in 1541. The executioner needed several attempts to sever her head and she screamed and struggled between each attempt. Her screams of terror are heard from her ghost about the time of the anniversary of her death.

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