Your Tarot Card of the Year: The Tower
If the digits of your birthday this year add up to 16, your Card of the Year is The Tower
What The Tower is All About
The Tower is one of Tarot’s most dramatic cards, and it tends to make people nervous. Lightning strikes, walls crumble, and everything familiar seems to fall apart. The Tower isn’t about random punishment or destruction, however. It represents the collapse of illusions and the shock of difficult truths. Importantly, it’s also about the liberation that follows. While this energy can certainly feel chaotic in the moment, the Tower always makes space for something more authentic to be built in the place of what’s been removed. A personal Tower year suggests that transformation may come swiftly, shaking loose what no longer serves you so you can step into greater freedom and honesty.
How to Work with Tower Energy
To embrace the Tower, practice non-attachment and resilience. Not all endings are tragedies, even if they’re stressful or unwelcome. Wildly enough, sometimes they’re blessings in disguise. If something falls apart, ask yourself, “Was this thing truly supportive and necessary, or was it just a crutch I’d outgrown?” The Tower teaches that liberation often comes disguised as disruption. You can work with this energy by building flexibility into your life. Nourish your support system of family and friends, and keep some empty space in your daily/weekly schedule. Remind yourself that release is often the first step toward renewal.
The Tower’s Advice
“What falls away was never meant to hold you forever. Trust yourself to grow beyond this.”
The Tower’s injunction is to honor the clearing process, even if it feels uncomfortable and confronting. Honor your response to it, too. You’re allowed to be upset! You’re allowed to worry about what comes next! Let these emotions move through you in their own time.
If having the Tower as your card feels overwhelming, you can reduce its number, 16, by adding 1 + 6 to arrive at 7 -- the number of The Chariot. Pairing the Tower’s breakthroughs with the Chariot’s direction and determination? That’s a potent choice. Either way, the lesson rings true: once the old structures come down, you are free to chart your path with clarity and power.
How does this year fit into your journey?
