The Tower Isn’t Bad News. Rethinking Tarot’s Most Feared Card
Lightning, falling figures, a crown knocked loose. Card XVI looks like disaster, but readers say it describes something more useful: the end of what was never stable.
In the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, first published in 1909, the Tower shows a building struck by lightning and two figures falling. It sits between the Devil and the Star in the Major Arcana, and many readers treat that position as the point: after the Tower comes hope.
If it shows up in your reading, the practical question is simple. What in your life is built on a foundation you already know is cracked?
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