A Lesson From The Tower Card
The Tower doesn’t punish, it redirects. When we ignore whispers, the universe sends lightning. Collapse feels brutal, but it clears the false so we can rebuild what’s real. The Tower doesn’t end you — it frees you.
Inner Rebel Series
The Tower doesn’t whisper. The Tower doesn’t “send a sign.”
The Tower kicks your door in, sets the couch on fire, and screams, “Pay attention!”
Tarot readers get this card and wince. Normal people get this card and think, “Well, that doesn’t look good.” And they’re right.
The Tower is upheaval. Collapse. Cosmic demolition. But here’s the trick: it’s not punishment. It’s not “bad luck.” It’s the universe taking a sledgehammer to whatever false structure you’ve been duct-taping together and insisting is a palace.
Why It Shows Up for the Nice Ones
Here’s what really pisses people off: The Tower doesn’t just land on villains. It lands on the over-givers, the martyrs, the “let me carry all your bags while you nap” types.
Why? Because the universe is not impressed with how nice you are.
It doesn’t care that you sacrificed, that you jumped higher, that you gave more. If you’re out of balance, if you’re bleeding yourself dry to hold up a crumbling system — the lightning comes for you, too.
I learned this the hard way. I kept carrying people who had no intention of walking on their own. And The Tower finally said: “Drop them. They signed up for their ride. You can’t pedal it for them.”
This Isn’t Just Personal. It’s Cultural.
Look around: we are living in Tower times.
Our institutions are collapsing. Trust in government? Cracked. Social media? Enshittified. The economy? Built on Jenga blocks of debt and vibes.
We’ve been ignoring the whispers — the data, the warnings, the gut feeling that something’s off. So now the universe is upping the ante. Systems fall. Towers burn. And we stand around shocked, as if we didn’t see the smoke.
The Tower isn’t cruel. It’s efficient. It removes what no longer works. And right now, a whole lot isn’t working.
The Rebel Takeaway
The Tower is terrifying only if you mistake collapse for death. What it really is — is liberation.
It’s the end of the crap you should’ve walked away from five exits ago. It’s the final “no” you were too polite to say. It’s the brutal, comic relief of realizing you were carrying everyone else’s oxygen mask while suffocating yourself.
So when The Tower shows up — in your life, in your culture — don’t cling to the rubble. Grab a hard hat, crack a joke, and recognize the gift: the false is gone. You’re free to build something real.
Final Card Pull
If I had to read The Tower for our world right now?
- The Lightning: collapsing systems that deserve it.
- The Falling Figures: the people clinging to illusions on the way down.
- The Rubble: where the rest of us get to start over.
The Tower doesn’t destroy what’s true.
It only destroys what’s fake.
And if that’s not rebellion? I don’t know what is.
