It can often bring us to a ‘dark night of the soul’. The flames are in the shape of the letter Yod – י – which is the first letter in the name of God. On the other side are 12 flames representing the Zodiac. One one side are 10 flames representing the Tree of Life.
There are 22 flames falling from the Tower, representing the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. A sudden strike that will change us forever. The flash of lightening is coming from the sky. The Roof/Crown represents our conscious mind and what we ‘think’. The Tower has 3 windows which represent the Supernal – the top 3 sephiroth on the Tree of Life. We are never the same after experiencing The Tower. We will questions everything as this change happens. The Tower tells us a change is coming or is upon us. The Tower represents our Ego and Persona. The tower is on fire and flames are falling from the sky.
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Two characters are falling from the tower and they are full of shock and terror. A tower has been struck by lightening and the roof has come off.
It is also a ‘deep’ deck because the creators of it put multi layered meanings inside it. Today the majority of Tarot decks are based on the Rider Waite deck. It is a great deck for beginners because every card has a picture describing its meaning.
The picture is from the Rider Waite Tarot deck which was first published in 1909. Let’s look at the picture below of The Tower. Illumination / Sudden flash of Insight / Emotional Breakthrough / End of False Consciousness / Flash of Insight The Tower represents: Sudden change / Drama / Destruction / Bad News / Shock It is given the number 16 because the very first card (The Fool) is given the number 0. The Tower is the seventeenth card in the Tarot Deck.