Mystic Goddess: A Journey in Tarot

The Tower card right after the Devil card always feels a little overwhelming! There is a good reason the Tower follows the Devil and why it, like the Devil is not at all as scary as it first seems to be…   On the card we see a giant tower being struck by a bolt of lightning which blows the giant crown shaped roof off of the tower and sets it ablaze. We see fire coming out from the top and the windows and a man and a woman falling out of the windows. They both have blue and red items of clothing on symbolizing material desires and intuitive connection. Their faces are filled with fear and surprise which makes sense considering the circumstance. One may ask why didn’t they just attempt to leave the tower if they had an idea a storm was coming, instead of possibly falling to their death as a result of an inevitable strike of lightning causing them to leap? If you look closely, you see there is no door on the tower. They had no way to leave, besides the window. These two built a tower ...

The fifteenth card in the major arcana is the Devil card. While this card can first bring on a feeling of fear or fright, it’s important to recognize that there’s nothing scary about the devil, because the Christian myth of the devil is wildly inaccurate. That being said, the metaphoric symbolism of the devil has to do with power imbalances. Let’s see how those qualities manifest in the Devil card… Looking at the Devil card we see a winged and horned satyr crouching on a raised stone platform of which the man and women are chained to. The man is standing in such a way that he seems to be lecturing the woman with an exasperated or demeaning look his face. The man’s tail is made of fire and it’s touching the downturned torch the devil holds, which still burns upward as if it was being held upright, almost as if the devil is ighting his behavior or attitude tempting him to treat her as if she should be submissive to him. The woman has grapes on the end of her tail from which she seems to ...