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The Tower is the 17th Card in the Major
Arcana of the Tarot.
(It is card No.16 because the 1st Card, "The
Fool" is
called Card No.0.)
The Tower is often thought to be one of the
most negative, and most justifiably feared cards in
the Tarot Deck.
(Contrast
this with those cards such as Death, The
Devil, and The
Hanged Man,
which some people fear because of their misunderstanding of
them.)
The reason for such strong attitudes to this card is
that The
Tower can indicate a dramatic "wake-up call", "bolt from the blue", or need for concious
self-improvement. Sometimes, it can indicate circumstances
that may be difficult to cope with initially.
However, no
card is completely negative. The Tower card
can help us to recognise and overcome attitudes that we may
hold and which are keeping us stuck or isolated in some way.
Many tarot decks include an image of a tall tower from which
people (typically a male and a female figure) are falling.
The most traditional images of thiscard also include lightening
strking the top of the tower, fire at the top of the tower,
and a raging sea at the bottom of the tower - dramatic, energetic,
imagery.
Some specific terms associated with "The Moon" Tarot
card include:
Darkness, Possible Deception, Caution, Important
of "gut" (instinctive) reactions, Situation
affected by something from our past.
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