XVI
The Tower
The Tower tarot card meaning
Major Arcana · XVI
upheaval · revelation · collapse
Upright meaning
Sudden collapse of something built on a false footing. The Tower is shocking, fast and — after the dust — clarifying.
Reversed meaning
A disaster narrowly avoided, or a slow collapse you are still trying to prop up.
Love
A truth surfaces and changes the shape of things overnight.
Career
An abrupt change of plan. Rebuild rather than repair.
Advice
Do not restore what fell. Build differently.
Where it sits in the deck
The Tower is card XVI of the Major Arcana, the twenty-two trumps that mark the turning points of a life. Read alongside its neighbours it forms part of the Fool's Journey, the story the deck tells when laid out in order.
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