The Tower of God
Although I’d never describe myself as a confident reader of tarot, I do read the card son my own behalf on a petty regular basis. Recently, the card that kept recurring was The Tower, also known as The Tower of God.
On the face of it, it’s pretty devastating image. The Tower of Babel is destroyed by lightening, with the inhabitants grown to the ground. Quoting my good friend and outstanding tarot reader and writer, Liz Dean, The Tower is one of the “change" cards, but here, change is usually unexpected and may be unwilling. With the goal of greater awareness, it shatters whatever has become rigid and unyielding and expels you from limiting circumstances.
For me, the card always comes with a sense of foreboding; what’s coming now, what should I be afraid of? But it’s essential to keep in mind that here truly are no “bad” cards in the Tarot. The Tower predicts a time when what has become untenable is swept away. For me, that has meant that I’ve spent the last two months in various hospitals as health issues I’ve long tried to avoid have finally become unavoidable. But the message of the card is also clear; that which is being swept aside is untenable, no longer serves you. What replaces it is what is meant for you.
It’s been a tough lesson to take onboard, but I can honestly say that as bad as things have been , what is replacing the past is unquestionably better. I’m fitter, safer and healthier that n I have been in years, and I have now resolved issues that left longer, could have been life-threatening.
All I can say is that not all apparently catastrophic change is bad. Sometimes, like an elastic band stretched to its limits, we reach a point where elasticity is lost and change is applied, certainly suddenly, perhaps brutally. When that happens, our best course of action is simply to respond as best we are able. There are no right answers at these times. There are no perfect solutions. Sometimes, we simply have to do the best we can, accept that we are taken at the flood, and ride out the change to its completion.
If like me, you are facing catastrophic change in your life, then I wish for you all the blessings of heaven, that you may exit these times, stronger that before.
With deepest love and best wishes to you, my gentle reader, whoever you are.
Alexander Dalgleish-Weaver
