What Does it Mean When You Draw the Tower in a Tarot Card Reading By Jovita Orais

The Tower In A Tarot Card Reading.
This symbol is link to the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel which was intended by its builders to reach heaven. This never happened for God caused them to speak different languages and they were unable to communicate with one another.

Lightning itself is associated with both wrath and destruction as well as with fertility and inspiration in myth. Zeus the father of the gods hurled thunderbolts around demonstrating his power.

Both Tower and lightning are masculine symbols and Mars is the planet linked to this card. Mars represents assertiveness,aggression,energy and activity. In the tarot, the Tower precedes the Star, a card which represents the feminine principle very clearly.

When you draw the Tower in a tarot card reading, it's tarot card meaning is exhilarating,disruptive or even violent change is about to turn your life upside down. But the change is necessary and positive for its results in freedom and enlightenment.

The changes represented by the Tower may come from deep within the psyche. These new ways of thinking may seem radical upheaval of beliefs and may erupt into consciousness without much warning.

You may find yourself short tempered, for another tarot card meaning of the Tower is anger.

The Tower also denotes a sudden change of residence. You may decide to sell, a buyer walks in the next day and within a couple of months you are living somewhere else and attempting to catch your breath.

When it concerns your career, you might have been in a rut and this upheaval is giving you the chance to climb out of it. For example, a new and unexpected source of income manifests out of the blue; you are suddenly inspired to train for a new career shocking friends and family.

When the Tower refers to a relationship you are warned that the partnership was not what you really thought it was. The association was not really based on true feelings or perhaps one of you is simply stringing the other along. If the relationship has a strong foundation expect a bumpy ride before things settle down. Basically that's the tarot card meaning of the Tower if you draw in a tarot card reading.

Jovita Orais started reading tarot professionally in the mid-nineties. Learn more of the unique tarot meaning of all the 78 cards of the tarot deck by visiting her blog at http://www.tarot-meaning.blogspot.com