Tower Moments Needn't be Huge

We see the card and groan, Expecting firings, arguments and upheaval when the reality is a little different.

The tower card used to be infamous around the globe for the one card you didn’t want to get.

It meant you guys were going to break up, it meant bad news and it meant a life defining moment of disappointment.

People used to literally wait for the other shoe to drop, literally praying to the Virgin of Guadalupe that the reader was wrong or for her intercession on the matter.

‘Please stop the tower from happening. Please…’

That is a lot of pressure for a little card.

With the rise in popularity of tarot and its education we are learning that actually, life is full of tower moments and they are the one thing that keeps us from walking down the wrong road. Often a road someone else is leading us down or suggested to us.

The tower moment stops you from wasting more of your time on something that won’t fulfil you long term, bring you the money you need or will cage you not free you.

We owe a lot to those two little people jumping from that forsaken building.

What makes the difference.

Say you have been working on a business, using AI to come up with a marketing strategy and locked in like never before. You can see this working and changing your life as you know it - you can finally put into the world what you want to.

You awaken after a New Moon and there is a little niggle that something isn’t right, your belief in you achieving your goals is wavering.

You open that App and enter the prompt “The marketing strategy for my business that we created. I don’t think it is going to work” and the response comes instantly…

Yes. I think you are right.

And then it continues to list all of it’s concerns, the strategies weaknesses and failures.

What do you do?

You follow YOUR instincts.

You do not chastise yourself for trusting a machine. You do not fall into a pit of despair for three days. You do not quit your entire business because it is never going to work. You definitely do not think this is a sign that you aren’t supposed to do it.

You rant to a friend and scream about how bad AI is. You feel the disappointment and the loss of certainty at having a concrete plan for a couple of hours. You decide if you still want to do the ting you want to do.

Then you pick yourself up, get a coffee and make a better strategy yourself, all the whilst running on a low level rage at AI to fuel your determination.

This is a life changing tower moment.

If this hadn’t happened you would have continued for months with no success and given up on something that you could have done.

The same with relationships, friends, jobs and anything else you invest energy in. Anything that steers your life and affects your choices. Its better the band-aid is ripped off sooner rather than waste years with the wrong person.

Please listen to the tower moments, big and small. Accept that seeing the truth isn’t a failure on your part. It doesn’t make you stupid, it doesn’t make you naive. Everyone has tower moments - even The Rock who is terrifyingly successful and rarely puts a foot wrong in business.

Those who still continue to exist in the rubble of the tower after it has fallen will walk deeper and deeper into denial and the darkness. Nothing grows in the rubble.

~ Malika

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