TAROT:
THE TOWER AND THE TRAGEDY
By Cindy
Griffith
Note:
this article was written shortly after 9/11/01
The following question was posed to me, via my agent. She and others wondered
what significance might The Tower card, in the tarot, have as far as the
September 11th tragedy. Now for those that are not familiar with The Tower card,
It is the card on the left of the page. I will also explain it the best I can.
You will see a roman numeral XVI on the top. This is 16. The card has a black
background with a gray tower on top of a gray mountain top. There are clouds
that are gray as well. You see, at the top of the tower, a yellow crown that is
blown off the top of the tower by a yellow arrow coming down from above. The
arrow is made to look like a lightning bolt. There is fire coming out the top of
the tower and the three windows. There are two people jumping out of the window
(one with a red cape) and these yellow Yods also seeming to be falling from the
sky, almost like rain.
Eden Gray, in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, states that The Tower is said to
be the tower of ambition built on false premises. The lightning is seen as
divine fire that destroys only what is evil and purifies and refines what is
good. The crown of materialistic thought falls from the tower and the man and
woman are falling from the tower of material security, after a brilliant glimpse
of Truth. The Yods signify the descent of the life force from above. Traditional
Tarot books usually define this card as Chaos, Change, conflict, catastrophe,
overthrow of existing ways of life and old notions upset. Gray says “Disruption
will bring enlightenment in its wake.”
The Tower is the card seen to represents the realization of a higher power (God)
taking off the "crown" of ego. That is why you see the lightning bolt striking
and blowing the top of the tower off. It is like when you realize that you are
not the only one here, that there is something much greater than you. It is like
a fire burns through you and clears away that egocentric side of yourself. You
can't take yourself quite so self importantly any more. This is why the people
are falling out of the tower and they are not harmed. We are more than our ego,
yet we need the ego to live in the human world. It is just that the ego needs to
learn it’s place and that it is not the top banana! It is said that the people
falling out of the tower represent the ego and that once they land, they will be
cleans and renewed, not killed. All that you built in your life that was soooo
important because of your focus on your ego, your bodily needs, etc., gets torn
down and you get to start over, on a new and fresh foundation. You then rebuild
with the ego-less thought of co-creation and what is built will be strong as
it's foundation includes God.
The tower also has to do with the Tower of Babble. If my memory serves me, one
of the versions goes that at one time we all spoke the same language and had
thought that we could build a tower tall enough to reach God. This showed our
egotism. God destroyed the tower and made it so that all of us spoke different
languages so that we could not band together and let our egos get out of control
again. With us all speaking different it made us not focus on the power of the
mind or self, but the power of God. You may find different interpretations, but
that is the general gist.
The interesting thing for me was that for the world the twin towers represented
our financial interests. These are more egocentric interests and by destroying
the towers it brought out the humanitarian or spiritual interests of our people
and the rest of the world. Our security being based on our financial strength
took the focus away from Spirit. Many of us were really shook up and felt like
stability had been taken away when we watched the stock market drop after they
reopened. Some of us did some soul searching to see what might we put our faith
in if our financial world bottomed out! It made us all speak the same language.
Are we being given a second chance? Is it a repeat but in an intricate reverse
of the original tower of babble? It is definitely thought provoking.
From what we know, the goal of the terrorists was to bring down the symbol of
our financial focus. They were making the point, in a disturbed way, that we
should realign our sense of security with Spirit. It is a message that many of
the Spiritual teachers and religious leaders have been trying to tell us for a
long time. In it’s own bizarre way, it worked. We banded together, gave a lot of
donations of money and time. The good part for us is that we turned a tragedy
into a spiritual growth opportunity. The entire world came together and faith in
Spirit and in our countries beliefs stood strong. Not what the terrorist
planned, but it shows that the human spirit is always evolving and that we can
learn, grow and evolve from the most dreadful of experiences.
I have also done the Tarot Numerology of the day and it turned out to be a 5
which represents the tarot card, The Hierophant or The Pope. In Tarot, this card
stands for Big Brother, Institutions, Government, Corporations, etc., (also the
Mafia and the Internet) The United States is also a 5. It was an interesting
"coincidence." One of my clients, a wonderful artist and very sensitive man, is
also a 5 and he told me that he was feeling almost suicidal the week before the
tragedy. Many of us had odd feeling that we couldn’t explain. My heart hurt for
days before and I said it must be stress of planning a wedding. I think that he
had an even stronger reaction as his own numerology gave him an even stronger
connection!
The United States year card, the Tarot card that relates to the US this year, is
also a 5. It means that this year (from July 4, 2001 through July 4, 2002) the
United States will get to experience it’s Soul energy in full force. This is the
year that the United States chooses to go to war. Tarot Numerology is a
fascinating and accurate introspective and divination tool.
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