The lightning bolts in the Tower tarot card are dramatic. They instigate the crumbling of our false beliefs are absolutely necessary. With nothing to open our eyes to the reality that what we are living is far from our best interest, we will continue down paths that take us nowhere we need to be, and far from where we need to be. Therefore, these lightning bolts are essential to pushing us back onto the path we most need to be on. When the tower tarot card comes up for you, ponder where you are in relation to where you most need to be —Jim Larsen
Those lightning bolts that instigate the crumbling of our false beliefs in the Tower card are absolutely necessary. With nothing to open our eyes to the reality that what we are living is far from our best interest, we will continue down paths that take us nowhere we need to be, and far from where we need to be. Therefore, these lightning bolts are essential to pushing us back onto the path we most need to be on.
The Tower Tarot Card: Enduring pain for a better life
The Tower tarot card may remind you that it is time to make big changes. To make these changes, you must knock down the metaphorical tower that your truth is imprisoned in. These changes may be daunting. They may be frightening. You may need to summon a great amount of courage to bring them about. You know though, that these changes are for your ultimate best good, so they are worth the pain you must endure to achieve them. The sooner you knock over this tower of yours though, the sooner you can get going on the new paradigm that awaits after it. Keep in mind, the pain will only be temporary. It will not be a permanent part of you. Once you are on the other side of this tower, a whole new existence of truth and fulfillment await you. Knock the tower down, and get through to it! — Jim Larsen
The Tower card may be encouraging you to find the courage to make big changes. You know the changes you must make for your own good will not be easy to make. They may bring some initial discomfort and pain, yet you know they are necessary to make. The idea of this discomfort and pain can easily bring about some hesitancy in making these changes.
The sooner you knock over this tower of yours though, the sooner you can get going on the new paradigm that awaits after it. Don’t let the fear of the Tower stop you from advancing in your life. Barrel through it to what awaits on the other side of it. — Jim Larsen
The Tower Tarot Card: Fighting the Emptiness Phobia
What does the Tower card in tarot stand for? Among other things, it stands for cleaning house, getting rid of what is not needed and not useful. We tend to collect so much junk whose only purpose is to take up space. So many people are afraid of empty space, just as they are afraid of silence.
Emptiness becomes a phobia. They fight against this phobia by filling empty spaces with anything at all, whether these things serve a valid purpose or not. Their purpose or their value is not the point. The point is, they fill space. Silence is the same thing. Silence is an emptiness that can only filled with noise or words.
People tend to feel lost in silence. They are so accustomed to noise that their own inner voices and thoughts are foreign and frightening. Rather than face that fear, they rally against it with noise to scare it away. Now they feel safe and secure. But all these things they collect to fill this space to feel secure, and all this noise to make to fill the emptiness of the silence is not needed, and it will eventually cause too much weight that will topple. It will cause the tower to fall and only that which is rooted to the foundation will remain. The rest will fall and be scattered.
As the tower falls, a sense of anxiety is likely to be felt. That which you have held onto- the thoughts and beliefs that you allowed to define who are thought you were- are suddenly vanquished and you are left feeling unsure of what will fill that space. In these times, ride the anxiety out. It will pass. It is only the feeling of your unnecessary elements dissipating. When that is over, a sense of surety of who you are will settle in. –Jim Larsen
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What does the Tower tarot card mean? Among the many things the it means, it’s also a warning to go with the flow. A simple reality is, you can’t always create your own flow. You may imagine how you wish things to be, but they may or may not happen this way. You can’t force others to go along with things that you would like, and trying to get them to can easily lead to frustration and dis-ease. Sometimes all you can do is go along with the flow that already is and accept it and integrate it. When you are in the flow, you are not building towers. Towers happen when you go against the flow.
Towers crash when the surge of the flow crashes against it and wears it down. A structure that is not against the flow will find that the surge contours around it safely. Getting into the flow means acceptance. It means appreciating the flow as it is for what it is.
There are many flows. There is a universal flow. There is a societal flow. There are personal flows. While it is possible to have some control over your personal flows, altering the universal flow is not possible, as they operate on principles that are absolute. Societal flows however, can be altered by personal flows. This can happen through protests, elections, any means by which ones voice is heard when the flow of society appears to becoming dangerous. In this case, the will of the people creates a flow that demolishes Towers that pose a threat.
When considering a life circumstance or a stance you are taking, considering where it fits into the various flows of life. Are you building a Tower that will crash against the flow? Are you creating a flow that will crash against another tower? Are you doing yourself any good by being inflexible? Are you doing society good by being forceful? — Jim Larsen
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Tower Tarot Card: Listening for the lost pieces of ourselves
Here’s a thought- what if we lose track of aspects of our self? What if there are pieces of who we are, that at one time shined gloriously and made us feel really good about ourselves? Maybe this is some talent or skill that we once loved to do, but for some reason or other, we stopped doing it. There could be any reason why we stopped doing it. Maybe we moved to a new place where it wasn’t so easy to do it anymore. Maybe our jobs made us too tired and we let it fall by the wayside. Maybe new people came into our lives and we started focusing on what we could do with them more than what we used to do. Whatever the case, for whatever reason, we let our passions diminish in importance.
It’s as if we built walls around them, brick by brick until they were encased inside and could not get out. As the days went by, the light on these passions grew dimmer and dimmer as we stacked more and more bricks around them and a Tower was built on top of them. The thing is though, these passions of ours, while locked up inside of the tower we built over them do not die.
No, they are still alive, and they never stop calling to us. We hear them, ever so faintly as they call to remind us that they are there. We hear them as faint whispers and a sense of nostalgia creeps in. Then, more and more reminders come our way about the things we used to do, and those whispers become screams. That’s when we realize how much we loved doing these things before and we do what it takes to tear down the walls of that tower so that our passions and our loves can get out and we can enjoy them once more.
Once we have freed these things and we find ways to enjoy them once more, a sense of completeness returns to us. This that was walled in is now a part of who we are again and life takes on a renewed sense of meaning. With this in mind, consider what you love to do. Endeavor to keep that passion alive and in the open. Find ways to express it even when the rest of your life is changing. These passions and loves are crucial to the overall being that is you. Keep yourself complete. Be careful about the Towers you build. –-Jim Larsen
We build Towers in many ways. In the tarot sense of the word, Towers are our creations that are not to meant to be. Their foundations are not steady. We have expectations that are unsupported. Because of this, they are bound to fall. One such Tower that we build are the expectations we create of other people. Don’t we do this? Don’t we put people on pedestals? Don’t we admire them so much that we create a fiction in our mind of what they are meant to be, and this is a glorified version of who they actually are? Such a vision can never last. Eventually we see things in them that are contrary to the image we have and they diminish in our eyes.
This doesn’t necessarily mean that they have become bad people. It just means our perception of them has shifted to align with reality, and we may be uncomfortable with what we see. We may feel they have fallen from grace. It may seem to us that they have let us down. The question becomes, did they ask for any of this? They were just going through the course of their daily life. They weren’t looking to be our hero. Yet, in our eyes, they let us down. They were at the top of a shaky foundation because we put them there.
When that foundation could support our vision no longer, it crumbled, sending that person crashing to the ground. We must be careful of this. It will pay off to admire the good qualities of people, but we must accept the fact that they are only human. Have appreciation for who they are, but allow them to live their life on their own terms without instilling in them the fear of letting us down. — Jim Larsen
The Tower Tarot Card: There is no point in living a lie
Sometimes we live in denial and try to convince ourselves that we love something or a situation that we are in when in all actuality, we do not. We might actually hate it, but we do what we can to convince ourselves that we don’t because it is too inconvenient for us. We take on situations that are important to us, such as a new job or a new home. We have put so much into these things – so much time and effort – that we are bound to them. We need to love them. We need to appreciate them. To not will only set us up for unhappy times ahead, as we have gone too far into it to back out.
So we tell ourselves how great it is. But what if it is not great? What if we are lying to ourselves? The lies will eventually be seen through. Our hearts call them out. One day we will discover just how much unhappiness this situation is causing us and we will endeavor to make changes. The denial up until then will cause stress, and this stress will become weight at the top of the tower that will eventually fall on top of us. So even if you cannot immediately change the situation you in, maybe you signed a contract that you cannot get out of, or it is not easy to resell the house you bought, why lie to yourself about being unhappy? Just admit it. Now you are living in reality. Now you can find what you need inside to deal with it.
There is no point living a lie. There is no shame in admitting you are unhappy. Towers can be intense when the fall, and they don’t always have to be built. Be careful about how they are built and save yourself the hardship of digging yourself out from under the rubble when one falls on you.
Do you evolve, or do you simply grow older? Do you process the lessons of your life and become a stronger, wiser person from them, or do you repeat the same patterns even though they add to a sense of discontentment? Do you find empowerment in what you have been through, or do you feel a sense of victimization? Do you seek to overcome adversity or do you wallow in self-pity? Do you rely on the same buzz words and catch phrases on and on or do you let go of the old and make room for the new thoughts and new ideas?
To evolve is to open to growth, to embrace new concepts and new ideas. To evolve is to release the old and make room for the new. You will not evolve by remaining stuck in the past, remaining stuck in old pains. This is the opposite of evolution. This is stagnation. To evolve is to know when to let go and move on. Stagnation is to refuse to let go, refuse to move on. Stagnation is to reach the Tower Point and remain there, to hold onto the rubble and refuse to let go.
Imagine the tower as a destination. This is a place of enlightenment. This is a place where all the lies you have been led to believe about yourself have manifested as physical energy. Your endeavor now is to get beyond it. Every lie you believe about yourself is a block that imprisons your truth. Your truth is what you are actually capable of, actually meant for. Perhaps though, you have denied these because they didn’t fit the paradigm of the lie you have been living. Eventually these lies will catch up to you and your truth will want to shine. This is the Tower Point. This is where you either find the courage to face these lies, or shrink from the opportunity to do so and continue you live in the paradigm of lies. To face them takes courage. To face them means to liberate yourself from them, no matter the pain involved. It also means to be free of them.
Evolution is to reach the Tower Point and to go beyond it, to leave the rubble of the tower behind. Personal evolution is enlightenment. Enlightenment is to have your light liberated from its prison cell atop the tower and finally allow it to shine freely. When your light is liberated, allow it to shine. Don’t rebuild the tower. Why put your light back in its cell?
Your light is a spark. Coax it into a flame. Keep the flame burning. Feed the flames with your passions and that which truly brings you joy and happiness. Feed the flames with your bliss so that it grows and grows. Let this flame become a fire. Coax this fire into an inferno. Let it spread. Encourage it to spread in the wind. Let it start numerous other fires that in turn will become infernos. As you create your fires, your infernos, you encourage others to do the same. You become the inspiration.
Perhaps in your light, they will find the courage to move beyond their own stagnation and to liberate their own light from their cells atop their own towers, and in turn will coax their light to flame to an inferno. In this way, we all evolve. We all evolve as individuals as well as a species.
Evolving as individuals has the benefit of expanding consciousness. We become aware of the perfection and the beauty in many things. Expand that to the evolution of the entire species where each individual member of the species wakes up to their own perfection. Imagine that they realize their own perfection and own inspirations and pursue these without the distractions that others dump on them. Imagine the perfection of the world if everybody would simply get out of their head and into their heart and accept what they find in the tower at the Tower Point. This is the evolution of the human species. It is what we are headed towards. As we move beyond our personal towers, we perfect ourselves. As we perfect ourselves, we perfect the species. As we perfect ourselves, the planet becomes a better and better place to be. It becomes a better and better place to be because it is now inhabited by enlightened beings living their truth with the rubble of their lies behind them. That’s all it takes to for the species to evolve. It really is that simple.
