The Tower Tarot Card: A Fall From Grace
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
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