The Tower card is representative of another scary and dreaded trump in the tarot as it depicts sudden change and a quickening of situations. Most will wring their hands in anticipation of total destruction coming out of no-where, yet pay close attention to the image as it shows only the top of the tower has suffered the damaged of destruction.
One of the key concepts A.E. Waite placed on the tower was the end of a dispensation of the current social, religious and/or culture structures, as Aleister Crowley (Thoth Deck) ascribed a strong symbol of the change of aeons, time and culture together.The two figures we find plummeting from the top and crown of the tower in the Waite-Smith deck are said to be Nebuchadnezzar and his vizier being ejected from the Tower of Babel. A.E. Waite ascribes the "literal word" and "false interpretation" to the two falling figures.
The tower trump suggest that the ruling things and way of rationalizing have become too restrained and limited as the tower scene is high above the clouds built upon a spiritual blue -- almost indicative of the ice of frozen and stuck spiritual growth -- jagged mountain top, the dark night in the back ground would indicate all that makes up the crown of that particular tower has only served to block the reflective light of the Sun that we normally find in the Moon and Stars (which are absent from our trump card). The gold lightning rod is indicative of a quick and sudden moment of enlightenment, epiphany and revelation that clears our way and sight to moving onward in our quest. The tower trump represents the defining moments in each of our lives that has us face our monsters, egos, fears, worries, -- and any limiting and restraining obstacles -- then helps us to get to over them. A flash of quickening in our spiritual growth as we make our way toward divine fulfillment
Because the tower has association with Babel, language, speech and communication, it can also be indicating a sudden revealing realization of misunderstanding, misrepresentation and/or false impressions.
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The key value is 16
The element of Fire
Planetary association is Mars
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