The Tower As Feelings
The Tower as feelings reveals a complex emotional landscape. This person embodies The Awakener, The Destroyer of Illusions, The Lightning Flash energy in how they feel - wise and guiding in their emotional expression. The card's imagery mirrors their inner world: A tall tower is struck by lightning, its crown knocked off and walls crumbling. Two figures fall headfirst from the tower amid flames and debris. Twenty-two drops of light fall from the dark sky. In love, The Tower represents sudden revelations about relationships, dramatic breakups that ultimately serve your growth, or shocking discoveries that change everything. This card can indicate relationships built on false foundations suddenly collapsing, affairs being discovered, or sudden realizations about incompatibility. While Tower moments in love are painful, they liberate you from relationships that weren't authentic or healthy. For some, The Tower represents love at first sight or sudden romantic awakening. The key is recognizing that these dramatic love changes, while shocking, clear the way for more genuine and fulfilling connections.
What They're Feeling
When someone feels like The Tower, their primary emotions are structure, ego, sudden change. The lightning bolt in the card reflects feelings of divine intervention and sudden spiritual awakening. The crumbling tower in the card reflects feelings of false foundations and ego structures being destroyed. Beneath the surface, there may also be feelings of revelation, achievement, authority.
Hidden Emotions
Even when The Tower appears upright, there may be hidden undercurrents of change resistance, avoided awakening, gradual transformation. These shadow emotions don't negate the primary feelings but add depth to understanding them.
How They Show These Feelings
As a fire card, The Tower suggests this person expresses their feelings passionately and directly. They tend toward enthusiasm, spontaneity, intensity in emotional matters. Expect them to communicate through bold gestures, energetic presence, and immediate expression of their feelings
What This Means for You
These feelings are genuine and present. In love, The Tower represents sudden revelations about relationships, dramatic breakups that ultimately serve your growth, or shocking discoveries that change everything. Understanding their emotional language - shaped by fire energy - will help you connect more deeply.
The Tower Reversed: As Feelings
When The Tower reversed represents feelings, the emotions are present but struggling to surface or be expressed. In love, the reversed Tower warns of avoiding necessary relationship changes, resisting romantic reality, or trying to prevent the natural end of relationships that have run their course. You may be ignoring obvious relationship problems, staying in situations that no longer serve you, or fear the upheaval that honest communication would bring. The reversed Tower can indicate gradual relationship deterioration rather than sudden endings, or internal relationship realizations that you're not yet ready to act upon. This card suggests that avoiding necessary relationship changes only delays inevitable growth. The fire energy is turned inward, creating internal emotional processing rather than outward expression.
Blocked or Unexpressed Emotions
The Tower reversed suggests feelings that are present but trapped. They may want to express structure, ego, sudden change but feel unable to. This could stem from fear, past hurt, or uncertainty about the relationship.
What They Cannot Communicate
In love, the reversed Tower warns of avoiding necessary relationship changes, resisting romantic reality, or trying to prevent the natural end of relationships that have run their course.
Esoteric Correspondences
Understanding The Tower's deeper symbolism enriches your as feelings interpretation.
Golden Dawn Title
La Maison Dieu
La Torre
Element
fire
Planet
Mars
Zodiac Sign
Aries
Dates
Mars transits
Hebrew Letter
פ (Peh)
Mouth, speech, expression
Tree of Life
Path 27
Netzach to Hod (Victory to Splendor)
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