Okay, let’s talk about the Tower card. Gets a bad rap, doesn’t it? People see it and immediately think disaster. And yeah, it kinda can be, not gonna lie.
I remember this one time pretty vividly. I was just doing a casual pull for myself, asking about the general vibe for the next month or so. Nothing too serious. Pulled three cards. And boom, there it was. The Tower. Right in the middle. My first thought was, “Oh, great. Just what I needed.” Didn’t really know what specific thing it might be pointing to, you know? It’s always vague like that sometimes.
So, I just kinda noted it down in my journal. Something like: “Got the Tower today. Heads up for potential chaos?” Didn’t dwell on it too much. What’s the point? Worrying doesn’t stop the lightning bolt, right?
Fast forward about two weeks. I was working on this project at my job. A really big one. We’d been crunching for months. Felt like it was going okay, maybe a bit rocky, but nothing major. Then one Tuesday morning, we all get called into this emergency meeting. The big boss is there, looking super grim. Turns out, the main client pulled the plug. Just like that. Funding gone. Project cancelled. Effective immediately.
Chaos. Total chaos. People were scrambling. Some folks were let go right then and there. Others, like me, were suddenly left with nothing to work on, wondering if we were next. It felt like the ground just fell out from under us. Like that tower on the card getting zapped by lightning.
What Happened Next
It was rough. The whole place was buzzing with uncertainty. Whispers, rumors, panicked faces. I spent the next few days updating my resume, just in case. Talked to my manager, tried to figure out what was going on. It was all very sudden, very disruptive.
- The immediate feeling was shock. Disbelief, really.
- Then came the worry about job security.
- Then a weird sense of… clarity?
Looking back, pulling that Tower card wasn’t a prediction I could have stopped. It was more like a heads-up from the universe. A “brace yourself” kinda message. The project cancellation? It sucked, big time. But honestly? That project was a mess. Stressful, poorly managed. Maybe the client pulling out was a blessing in disguise, forcing a necessary change.
It shook everything up, yeah. But it also cleared away something that wasn’t really working, even if we didn’t want to admit it. In the end, I got moved to a different team, working on something way more stable and, frankly, more interesting. So, the Tower moment led to something better, eventually. It wasn’t fun going through it, though. Felt like freefall for a bit.
So, my experience? The Tower is intense. It’s abrupt. It can feel like destruction. But sometimes, it’s about dismantling structures that needed to go anyway, even if you didn’t realize it. It forces truth out into the open. You just gotta ride it out and see where the pieces land. That’s how I handled it, anyway. Just dealt with the fallout, piece by piece, day by day.
