![]() ![]() ![]() In some early versions, the fire does not strike the tower from above, but is going the other way - ascending to heaven from the tower. In the Marseilles deck, this card is called La maison dieu, the house of God, and the part of the tower knocked off by the strike of lightning is clearly a crown, as if to say, false pretensions have been knocked off, or, the crown chakra is forcibly opened. Whether or not this is experienced as "spiritual emergency" - a crisis, in classical tarot terms - seems to depend firstly upon the individual, and secondly upon the understanding and support of the people around them. ![]() The card of The Tower I feel stands for ego death. The card seems to me a literal depiction of the baptism of fire, the tower being the central nervous system. ![]() It took me 2 years to complete a first reading. In this masterpiece, the author reviews the major arcana as spiritual exercises and magical formulae. In this regard, I cannot recommend highly enough the book Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism, written anonymously but believed to be the work of Valentin Tomberg. I have more resonance with the theory that Tarot originated as a set of spiritual exercises amongst the Cathars in the 12th - 13th centuries. ![]()
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