Arkarma
The 22 major arcana
Marseille Tarot · Arcana XVI
The Tower
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The Tower, arcana XVI of the Marseille Tarot, illustrated in gold on a night background
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The Tower
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Upright meaning. Flip for the other reading.

Marseille Tarot · Arcana XVI
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The Tower

Yes or no answerNoits answer when you ask a question ElementFireits family of energy AstrologyMarsits celestial correspondence

✦ The symbol of the card · Upright ✦

Struck by lightning, a tower splits open and two figures tumble from its heights. The Tower is the liberating shock: what was built on falsehood collapses so that the true can take its place.

What is false collapses all at once. It shakes you, and it sets you free.

✦ What it says about your life ✦

In love
A thunderclap reveals the truth of a relationship. What collapses was built on something false, set yourself free.
At work
An upheaval frees you from a shaky situation: rebuild on healthy ground. What is collapsing had been going the wrong way for a long time.
Money
An unexpected expense or an upheaval clears the air in the long run. This financial reckoning sets you back on solid ground.
Health & energy
A discharge of tension: release what has built up, it frees you. After the shake comes true relief.

Do not hold on to what is collapsing: it is setting you free.

Draw your card of the day See the 10 spreads

✦ In the sky ✦

In the astrological tradition, The Tower answers to the planet Mars. It colours the way Mars acts in your chart.

✦ The mirror hours it governs ✦

05:05The liberating change

✦ Frequently asked about The Tower ✦

The Tower: yes or no?
In a yes or no reading, The Tower answers "No" upright. Reversed, its answer flips to "Yes". Ask your question clearly before you draw to sharpen its reply.
What does The Tower reversed mean?
A crisis postponed, fear of change, resistance. Delaying the fall only makes it harder. Better a truth that shakes than a false calm.
Is The Tower a good card?
No card is good or bad in itself. The Tower lights up one facet of your question: its meaning depends on its place in the spread and the cards around it.
In which spreads can you meet The Tower?
The Tower can turn up in every Arkarma spread: card of the day, yes or no, love reading or Celtic cross. Draw a card to see whether it comes to you.