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The Tower Tarot Card Meaning
The Tower is card XVI of the Major Arcana. Upright it speaks of sudden change, revelation, upheaval; reversed, of averted disaster, fear of change. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's Jungian archetype and its astrological correspondence.
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Upright meaning
“Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin. It is a card in particular of unforeseen catastrophe”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: sudden change, revelation, upheaval, awakening, liberation.
Reversed meaning
“According to one account, the same in a lesser degree; also oppression, imprisonment, tyranny”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: averted disaster, fear of change, delaying the inevitable.
The archetype
Collapse of the persona — sudden irruption of the Self; liberation disguised as catastrophe.
Astrology
Correspondence: Mars.
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