TLP Lesson 16 - The Tower - The Destruction of the Journey
Tarot Life Planner - Lesson 16 - The Tower - The Destruction of the Journey
Lightning strikes the Fool. Perhaps he was standing out in the open, heedless of the warning weather signs. The Tower crumbles. Bodies and bricks are falling down. Demolish that thing you ended with the Death card. Destroy the false images and expectations others have of you. It’s time to pick up and go in a completely new and unexpected direction. You can embrace the upheaval and move forward with hope, continuing the journey; or you can be dragged kicking and screaming through the mud left by the rain and wonder where you are and how you got there.
Ever want to tear something down and just start over from the beginning? The Tower archetype enables you to do just that. Like a powerful thunderstorm that whips up out of nowhere and leaves devastation in its wake, the Tower means upheaval. It can mean the loss of a relationship, of your job, or even your peace of mind. Yet it is this loss that opens the way to a new circumstance. Upheaval can also be the addition of stress or responsibility that spurs you to drastically lighten your load. And once through the Tower experience you’ll see that you have moved in a direction that you desperately needed to, but never would have dared.
Reversed Meaning
The change is delayed, but is yet coming.
Don’t instigate a major change.
You are stuck in the same rut and going through the same negative experience yet again.
Earth to Air - pay more attention to the mental and spiritual than the physical.
The Tower appearance in a spread
Take encouragement from a shocking upheaval in your life to look ahead to the new possibilities that are opening up. Dare to imagine.
Tower Exercise
Let the Tower Fall
Use this exercise when you can’t get clarity from a larger multi-card reading, or from several smaller readings done on the same subject; when you are really struggling with an issue and just can’t ‘get it’.
Take the cards from the reading(s) and build a card tower by balancing them against each other standing upright. Like in the Temperance exercise of Balance, use a flat still surface with plenty of friction. Close the cats and other distractions out of the room. While building the Tower, open yourself to change and upheaval. Ask the universe to show you the change you need to embrace.
When the Tower of cards falls, as it surely will, observe the topmost card or any card that goes flying out. That’s the card you need to meditate on, the change you need to embrace, or whatever your intuition tells you it is.
If it’s not too tedious, build up the Tower several times and see if you get different results.
Alternatively: Build a Tower of cards by pulling from the top of the deck until the Tower falls and then interpret them as they lay.
Using the Tower to change your life
Manifest the Tower
To bring on major change.
Banish the Tower
To delay or slow down the process of a huge upheaval.
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Lightning strikes the Fool. Perhaps he was standing out in the open, heedless of the warning weather signs. The Tower crumbles. Bodies and bricks are falling down. Demolish that thing you ended with the Death card. Destroy the false images and expectations others have of you. It’s time to pick up and go in a completely new and unexpected direction. You can embrace the upheaval and move forward with hope, continuing the journey; or you can be dragged kicking and screaming through the mud left by the rain and wonder where you are and how you got there.
Ever want to tear something down and just start over from the beginning? The Tower archetype enables you to do just that. Like a powerful thunderstorm that whips up out of nowhere and leaves devastation in its wake, the Tower means upheaval. It can mean the loss of a relationship, of your job, or even your peace of mind. Yet it is this loss that opens the way to a new circumstance. Upheaval can also be the addition of stress or responsibility that spurs you to drastically lighten your load. And once through the Tower experience you’ll see that you have moved in a direction that you desperately needed to, but never would have dared.
Reversed Meaning
The change is delayed, but is yet coming.
Don’t instigate a major change.
You are stuck in the same rut and going through the same negative experience yet again.
Earth to Air - pay more attention to the mental and spiritual than the physical.
The Tower appearance in a spread
Take encouragement from a shocking upheaval in your life to look ahead to the new possibilities that are opening up. Dare to imagine.
Tower Exercise
Let the Tower Fall
Use this exercise when you can’t get clarity from a larger multi-card reading, or from several smaller readings done on the same subject; when you are really struggling with an issue and just can’t ‘get it’.
Take the cards from the reading(s) and build a card tower by balancing them against each other standing upright. Like in the Temperance exercise of Balance, use a flat still surface with plenty of friction. Close the cats and other distractions out of the room. While building the Tower, open yourself to change and upheaval. Ask the universe to show you the change you need to embrace.
When the Tower of cards falls, as it surely will, observe the topmost card or any card that goes flying out. That’s the card you need to meditate on, the change you need to embrace, or whatever your intuition tells you it is.
If it’s not too tedious, build up the Tower several times and see if you get different results.
Alternatively: Build a Tower of cards by pulling from the top of the deck until the Tower falls and then interpret them as they lay.
Using the Tower to change your life
Manifest the Tower
To bring on major change.
Banish the Tower
To delay or slow down the process of a huge upheaval.
Order a Reading from ladylorelei108
Visit my website www.tarotgoddess.net
Join my Yahoo Group to get these lessons on time.
Check out Tarot News, another yahoo group I write for.