Alright, let’s talk about The Tower card. I gotta be honest, for the longest time, this card totally freaked me out whenever it showed up in a reading. Just seeing that image – the lightning, people falling, the crumbling building – it just screamed disaster, right?
I remember one specific period a few years back. Things felt… stuck. Like really stuck. I was working on this project, poured months into it, felt like it was my big break. I pulled some cards for myself, just checking in, you know? And bam, there it was. The Tower. My stomach just dropped. I shuffled again, hoping it was a fluke. Pulled it again. Okay, universe, message received, I guess?
Honestly, I tried to ignore it. Pushed it to the back of my mind. Big mistake.
A couple of weeks later, everything with that project just imploded. It wasn’t one thing, it was like a cascade of failures. Funding got pulled unexpectedly, a key partner backed out, and some technical stuff completely failed. It was exactly like the card – sudden, chaotic, and felt like the ground fell out from under me. Everything I’d built, just gone. Poof.
Navigating the Rubble
Okay, so there I was, sitting in the metaphorical rubble. It sucked. Really sucked. For a few days, I just felt lost and honestly, pretty angry. I kept thinking back to that Tower card.
But then, something shifted. I had to deal with the fallout, right? Couldn’t just sit there. So, I started cleaning up the mess, piece by piece.
- First, I had to accept it was over. No salvaging that specific project. That was tough.
- Then, I started looking at why it fell apart. Not just the surface stuff, but the deeper issues. Was the foundation shaky from the start? Was I ignoring warning signs? (Spoiler: Yes, I was).
- I had to have some really difficult conversations with people involved. Lots of humility needed there.
- Slowly, very slowly, I started picking up the pieces and figuring out what to do next.
It wasn’t fast, and it definitely wasn’t easy. It felt like demolishing a condemned building by hand before you could even think about laying a new foundation.
A New Perspective
Looking back now, that whole Tower experience, as awful as it felt at the time, was necessary. That project? It was built on some shaky assumptions and wasn’t truly aligned with where I needed to go. Its collapse, while painful, cleared the path. It forced me to confront some truths I’d been avoiding.
It forced me to build something stronger, something more authentic, on cleared ground. The new direction I eventually took was way better, more sustainable, and honestly, more me.
So now? When The Tower shows up? I still take a deep breath, not gonna lie. It usually means change is coming, and it might be abrupt or uncomfortable. But I don’t see it purely as disaster anymore. I see it as a necessary shake-up. A reality check. Sometimes, the things we build need to crumble so we can build something better in their place. It’s the universe’s way of saying, “This structure isn’t sound anymore. Time to renovate, even if it means tearing down some walls.” It’s tough love, tarot style.
