16-The Tower – Upright Golden Deck

Your Chosen Card – The Tower Upright Golden Deck

When upright, the Tower suggests that you need to critically evaluate the structures that are confining you or limiting your life. If you don’t do so voluntarily, the universe will find a way to force change upon you. Longstanding routines that have been hindering your progress need to be abandoned. Unanticipated changes may at first appear traumatic but in the long run can open the door to renewal. There’s an old adage that says every crisis presents an opportunity. Unexpected and sometimes drastic alterations in one’s life course are often accompanied by sudden and profound insights into the nature of one’s reality and belief system. Concretely, such events may include separation, divorce, job loss, school failure, financial setbacks, an upsetting medical diagnosis, and so on.

Keywords Upright: A bolt from the blue, a sudden revelation, abrupt changes, unexpected news that seizes your attention, disruption, overthrow, upheaval, forced change, a call to action, unanticipated events, sudden enlightenment, liberation from limiting structures, purgation, an opportunity for new growth, purification, the need to act before it is too late.

Key XVI: The Tower
Myths/Archetypes: The Tower of Babel. Thor, the Norse god of lightning. Zeus of the thunderbolt. Buddha under the Bodhi Tree. Hades abducting Persephone.
Astrology: Mars, the god of wars, bloodshed, destruction. (Mars rules Aries and Scorpio)
Numerology: 7 (Chariot) = 1 + 6 (The Tower)

Golden Dawn: Courage, ambition, fighting, war (attributes of the planet Mars); when accompanied by stressful cards, destruction, ruin, danger, defeat.

When The Tower is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If The Tower is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The Tower is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for The Tower using cards from the Golden Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.


Here are some snippets from a few of my favorite books

Complete Book of Tarot
Book Details
Complete Book of Tarot: Mars, the red planet, is the god of war, bloodshed, and macho masculinity. He is assigned to the Tower, trump XVI. Mars is a planet of assertiveness, strife, conflict, aggression, force, warfare, and domination.

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: Golden Dawn: Synthesis, world, kingdom; the matter inquired about, hence what the World signifies will depend largely on the accompanying cards.

Portable Magic: A circle of golden light expands outward from your heart centre to the twelve rectangles and floats upon the air of the ritual place above the zodiac trumps, linking with its band all twelve signs of the zodiac.

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Portable Magic: A circle of golden light expands outward from your heart centre to the twelve rectangles and floats upon the air of the ritual place above the zodiac trumps, linking with its band all twelve signs of the zodiac.