Okay, as far as I'm concerned, today's Tarot Tuesday is Tower Tuesday. (Say that 5 times fast while walking widdershins. :) It's been a long time coming and today feels particularly central to the major energy transition taking place in our world, in this time between Equinox, Earth Day and Easter, time of eclipse and Grand Cross – you know, just spring fever would be enough, but no – so let's just jump right through this portal!
Wise women have said that sometimes you have to jump through hoops, and any one of them just might be a magical vortex to new possibilities! And they have also said that this is a very good time for telling stories which have the power to create our reality and teach it to us at the same time.
So I invite you to help me, sisters and brothers, to tell the new story of the Tower. I've always liked the Tower card, even though it looks like it's raining down death and destruction, because it's all about liberating ourselves from old bondage and moving on to new freedom, growth and creativity. So what's not to like? It's not necessarily going to be easy, but staying stuck and miserable isn't really what I'd call “easy” either – just familiar, and that doesn't make it good. Sure, sometimes it's time to stay put and put up with it – but it doesn't feel like that now!
Since about Samhain the image of the Tower has been transforming from one of oppression, confinement, crumbling and restricting, concentrating power and control, perpetuating isolation and separation, corruption, violence, imbalance, linear and hierarchical paradigms, a crumbling old phallic edifice in a wasted countryside (you get the picture) to a beautiful vertical alignment of our chakras, the World Tree, the Tree of Life, rising to the cosmos and descending into the Earth, with energy streaming both up and down, and pouring out to the surrounding community in a landscape of abundance and fertility, embraced and supported by circles of humanity within the sacred embrace of the Land, both cultivated and wild. (I hope you get this picture too!)
What does this Tower look like, feel like? What takes place there? Is it a silo filled with nourishing seeds of knowledge and hope? Is it a wizard's turret laboratory barely containing the magical energy unleashed in her alchemical experiments? Maybe it's a library with nothing but a spiral staircase and rising stacks of books, lit by archers slits in the stone walls and a skylight dome overhead. It could be simply an observatory/meditation perch where one could sit and see the whole world, at the hub of the great turning Wheel. There could be rooms, lofts, studios for learning, for art, for healing, for gathering. It could be a cosmic B & B – who knows?
And in the landscape – what do you see? Permaculture villages? Biodynamic farms? Urban rooftop gardens? Hobbit houses? Psychic cafes, since we won't need the Internet anymore once we all awaken our kundalini and transcend the need for language? Temples of interfaith celebration and study? Boutiques of hand-made artisan crafts? Labyrinths and meditation gardens?
And how do the Tower and the Land and the people interact in a new, healthy, mutually empowering way? Do some people live in the Tower and some in the countryside or do they all go back and forth? Do they just live in the villages and visit the Tower for specific purposes? Is the Tower permanent or does it get rebuilt every so often? How do the people keep from falling back into the patterns that led to the violence against the Land and the corruption of the Tower? What does leadership and empowerment feel like in this new land? What new wisdom and power does this bring us, and with what responsibility?
It's out story and we might as well have some fun telling it. Let it take you where it will go. We're myth-makers and we know that “myths” aren't untrue, they're just more than literal, full of many layers and levels of meanings. I look forward to hearing your insights and revelations...!
So I invite you to help me, sisters and brothers, to tell the new story of the Tower. I've always liked the Tower card, even though it looks like it's raining down death and destruction, because it's all about liberating ourselves from old bondage and moving on to new freedom, growth and creativity. So what's not to like? It's not necessarily going to be easy, but staying stuck and miserable isn't really what I'd call “easy” either – just familiar, and that doesn't make it good. Sure, sometimes it's time to stay put and put up with it – but it doesn't feel like that now!
Since about Samhain the image of the Tower has been transforming from one of oppression, confinement, crumbling and restricting, concentrating power and control, perpetuating isolation and separation, corruption, violence, imbalance, linear and hierarchical paradigms, a crumbling old phallic edifice in a wasted countryside (you get the picture) to a beautiful vertical alignment of our chakras, the World Tree, the Tree of Life, rising to the cosmos and descending into the Earth, with energy streaming both up and down, and pouring out to the surrounding community in a landscape of abundance and fertility, embraced and supported by circles of humanity within the sacred embrace of the Land, both cultivated and wild. (I hope you get this picture too!)
What does this Tower look like, feel like? What takes place there? Is it a silo filled with nourishing seeds of knowledge and hope? Is it a wizard's turret laboratory barely containing the magical energy unleashed in her alchemical experiments? Maybe it's a library with nothing but a spiral staircase and rising stacks of books, lit by archers slits in the stone walls and a skylight dome overhead. It could be simply an observatory/meditation perch where one could sit and see the whole world, at the hub of the great turning Wheel. There could be rooms, lofts, studios for learning, for art, for healing, for gathering. It could be a cosmic B & B – who knows?
And in the landscape – what do you see? Permaculture villages? Biodynamic farms? Urban rooftop gardens? Hobbit houses? Psychic cafes, since we won't need the Internet anymore once we all awaken our kundalini and transcend the need for language? Temples of interfaith celebration and study? Boutiques of hand-made artisan crafts? Labyrinths and meditation gardens?
And how do the Tower and the Land and the people interact in a new, healthy, mutually empowering way? Do some people live in the Tower and some in the countryside or do they all go back and forth? Do they just live in the villages and visit the Tower for specific purposes? Is the Tower permanent or does it get rebuilt every so often? How do the people keep from falling back into the patterns that led to the violence against the Land and the corruption of the Tower? What does leadership and empowerment feel like in this new land? What new wisdom and power does this bring us, and with what responsibility?
It's out story and we might as well have some fun telling it. Let it take you where it will go. We're myth-makers and we know that “myths” aren't untrue, they're just more than literal, full of many layers and levels of meanings. I look forward to hearing your insights and revelations...!