The Tower tarot card Symbols meaning

The Tower tarot card Symbols meanings and Keywords

We included for your reference The Tower tarot card symbols, interpretation, and keywords from the author A.E. Waite. It contains crypted message and directions for the enlightened student. Have fun.

Keywords

The Tower tarot card upright meaning:
Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin. It is a card in particular of unforeseen catastrophe.

The Tower tarot card reversed meaning:
According to one account, the same in a lesser degree also oppression, imprisonment, tyranny.

The Tower tarot card symbols

The Tower struck by Lightning. Its alternative titles are: Castle of Plutus, God’s House and the Tower of Babel. In the last case, the figures falling therefrom are held to be Nimrod and his minister. It is assuredly a card of confusion, and the design corresponds, broadly speaking, to any of the designations except Maison Dieu, unless we are to understand that the House of God has been abandoned and the veil of the temple rent. It is a little surprising that the device has not so far been allocated to the destruction Of Solomon’s Temple, when the lightning would symbolize the fire and sword with which that edifice was visited by the King of the Chaldees.

The Tower tarot card symbols meaning

Occult explanations attached to this card are meagre and mostly disconcerting. It is idle to indicate that it depicts min in all its aspects, because it bears this evidence on the surface. It is said further that it contains the first allusion to a material building, but I do not conceive that the Tower is more or less material than the pillars which we have met with in three previous cases.

I see nothing to warrant Papus in supposing that it is literally the fall of Adam, but there is more in favour of his alternative–that it signifies the materialization of the spiritual word. The bibliographer Christian imagines that it is the downfall of the mind, seeking to penetrate the mystery of God. I agree rather with Grand Orient that it is the ruin of the House of We, when evil has prevailed therein, and above all that it is the rending of a House of Doctrine. I understand that the reference is, however, to a House of Falsehood. It illustrates also in the most comprehensive way the old truth that “except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.”

The Fall

There is a sense in which the catastrophe is a reflection from the previous card (The Devil), but not on the side of the symbolism which I have tried to indicate therein. It is more correctly a question of analogy; one is concerned with the fall into the material and animal state, while the Tower tarot card symbols signifies destruction on the intellectual side. The Tower has been spoken of as the chastisement of pride and the intellect overwhelmed in the attempt to penetrate the Mystery of God; but in neither case do these explanations account for the two persons who are the living sufferers. The one is the literal word made void and the other its false interpretation. In yet a deeper sense, it may signify also the end of a dispensation, but there is no possibility here for the consideration of this involved question.

Book a professional tarot reading.
Tarot resources
Major Arcana
Wands
Pentacles
Cups
Swords

If you need guidance on the interpretation of The Tower tarot card symbols meaning and keywords please leave a comment below and we will revert back to you.
Peace and Love.
YV Angel .

Social Media