The crown is moved only when a new king is about to be crowned. The disruption of the crown atop the tower itself symbolizes that it is the end of an era. This is to illustrate that these sorts of sudden, intense events do not take one’s wealth or status into account. Many Tarot decks illustrate one of these men as wearing a crown and the other man dressed in attire more likely to belong to a peasant. Some will barely survive while others will thrive. The men are in different positions to indicate that the effects of the radical change that is happening will not be equally distributed. All measures were taken to be isolated from war, pestilence and disease by building a remote tower. Neither of the men in the illustration have done anything to cause the destruction and chaos in which they have become enveloped. Billowing clouds of gray smoke are everywhere. Atop the edifice, a giant gold crown has been dislodged by the thunderbolt and is being lifted up and off the top of the tower. The tower itself is on a craggy cliff and the men appear to be falling even further past the foundation of the building. Both are falling headfirst, one diving forward, the other falling backwards, neither in control. There are two men falling out of the tower. Flames erupt from the top of the tower and from out of the building’s windows. Be it a stirring of Mother Nature or the impact of someone else’s economic decisions on your life, understand that these are circumstances with which you had little if any influence over.Ĭentered amidst a black sky, lightning strikes a stone tower. This card is the Tarot’s way of acknowledging that the rapid transformation occurring in your world is due to forces beyond your control.
Has a big change of plans occurred? Are you getting a Tarot reading because some unexpected event has completely changed your life? Has your world turned upside down? Was a steady part of your life recently destabilized in dramatic fashion? Is change happening too quickly for you to hold on to something? If so, the tower is influencing events and has appeared in your Tarot reading.