1750–1760) renames it La Foudre ("The Thunderbolt"). Reversed: Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, distraction, apathy, nullity, vanity. It is a card in particular of unforeseen catastrophe. THE TOWER.- Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin. Waite's 1910 book The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, the Tower card is associated with:ġ6. The Tower is associated with the planet Mars. In the Rider–Waite deck, the top of The Tower is a crown, which symbolizes materialistic thought being bought cheap. The Tower is sometimes interpreted as meaning danger, crisis, sudden change, destruction, higher learning, and liberation. Alternatively, the Harrowing of Hell was a frequent subject in the liturgical drama of the Late Middle Ages, and Hell could be depicted as a great gate knocked asunder by Jesus Christ.The Minchiate version of the deck may represent Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden. For example, it may be a reference to the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, where God destroys a tower built by mankind to reach Heaven. The destruction of the tower of Babel is depicted in this Bulgarian manuscript.Ī variety of explanations for the images on the card have been attempted. Pamela Colman Smith's version is based on the Marseilles image, with small tongues of fire in the shape of Hebrew yod letters replacing the balls. Two men are depicted in freefall against a field of multicolored balls. The Tarot of Marseilles merges these two concepts, and depicts a burning tower being struck by lightning or fire from the sky, its top section dislodged and crumbling. In the Tarot of Paris (17th century), the image shown is of the Devil beating his drums, before what appears to be the mouth of Hell the card still is called La Foudre. In some Belgian tarots and the 17th-century tarot of Jacques Viéville, the card is called La Foudre or La Foudre ("The Lightning"), and depicts a tree being struck by lightning. In the Minchiate deck, the image usually shown is of two nude or scantily clad people fleeing the open door of what appears to be a burning building. In these decks the card bears a number of different names and designs. Įarly printed decks that preserve all their cards do feature The Tower.
Some early painted decks, such as the Visconti-Sforza tarot, do not contain it, and some tarot variants used for gameplay omit it. This card follows immediately after The Devil in all tarots that contain it, and is associated with sudden, disruptive revelation, and potentially destructive change. It is captioned La Foudre, French for strike of lightning. The Belgian Tarot depicts a tree struck by lightning.
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