The Tower

The Tower strikes what was built on a false foundation. The lightning is not punishment — it is truth arriving at the speed of truth. What falls had to fall, and the figures plummeting will land somewhere more honest than the heights they were clinging to.

Reversed, The Tower warns of a crisis you are delaying or narrowly avoiding, or of inner upheaval that has not yet become outer change. The pressure is building. Address the crack before the bolt of lightning does the addressing for you.

✦ The Illustration

A stone tower is split by a gold lightning bolt from the upper left. A jeweled crown tumbles from its summit, two figures fall from the windows, and flames roar from the crenellations against a turbulent star-strewn sky.

✦ Affirmation

“I let what is false fall, so that what is real may stand.”