Your Card

Tower

This card can be literal, so in response to your question about Air BnB – the house or the high-rise? It’s the high-rise.

And we may be talking about All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix, or The Tower in the Tarot and so on. Your immediate psychic response to this card is the key.

Even so, there are some other messages that come with this card in The Modern Lenormand Oracle.

Tall and self-supporting is one. There for observation. For communication. A clock tower does that. So does any tower in a castle.

The Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai is the tallest in the world. It has an observation deck; also the world’s highest – and an electronic telescope. In other towers there is VHF-UHF transmission. Towers broadcast.

Superior Views

If you draw this card, you are being told about superior views and the advantage of wide-ranging observation.

If you are asking about a policeman you are dating, you are being told – he towers above other people (he may actually be tall) – but certainly in terms of seeing all, and knowing a lot more than other people. He’s an information hub. He transmits the latest.

If you are asking about what your small nephew wants for Christmas, perhaps – Lego.

Prominent and Well-Known

Towers are famous. The Eiffel Tower is the world’s best known. Then, there’s the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The Twin Towers and Trump Tower in New York. This card shows who and what is unmissable. Usually known to everybody, far and wide.

Enduring and Resistant

Even when they lean, towers last. It takes a great deal to bring them down. This card is about endurance and resistance.

Towers can be battered by high winds, for example, and withstand the pressure.

For the most part, they are symbols of resilience and strength. Forever structures. The phrase ‘he/she is a tower of strength’ may be relevant here. In a crisis, when life is stormy, it is to such people we turn.

Gemini and Sagittarius

In the astrological chart, Gemini (the media) and Sagittarius (the worldwide web in translation) are symbolised by this card.

Throughout history, lighthouses, bell towers, clock towers, signal towers and minarets were used to communicate messages over long distances.

Bell ringers let you know what time it is; if there is a wedding. They signalled the end of the last war in Great Britain – the bells rang again.

Navigation and Information

Air traffic control towers are there for navigation. Meteorological measurement towers give us the weather.

You are being told, this person, situation, place or organisation is a high hub of knowledge.

Even when a tower is struck by lightning, or some other shattering event (as with The Tower in the Smith-Waite Tarot) much of it remains. The question is – does one return to rebuild, or walk away and start again?