The Tower Card reveals sudden change and truth. How Pluto in Aquarius accelerates upheaval, decentralization, and deep transformation.
The Tower Card Archetype: Under Pluto’s Gaze
The Tower Arcana in Tarot is linked to shocking, sudden, and disruptive events; drastic changes that arrive without warning.
This Powerful card is also known as the House of God. It signals a powerful rupture in ordinary reality and the end of complacency for everyone caught in the upheaval.
Arcanum XVI points to the collapse of certain structures, habits, or old beliefs that are no longer useful, or that must be reshaped in order to coexist in a new phase of our lives. This is an essential step in redefining the importance and meaning of people, situations, and events in our reality.
It also speaks to revelations: hidden truths coming to light and long-kept secrets being exposed.
The card brings archetypal experiences to our consciousness, to help us learn from crises and use the experience to gain wisdom and perspective.
The Tower Card Tarot Meaning: Pluto in Aquarius, Revelation, and Radical Change
This is a chance to reassess what truly matters to you.
The Archetype of the Tower, in association with a powerful astrological event, namely the presence of Pluto in Aquarius (emerging from the pause of retrogradation), can forecast the interaction of chaotic and transformational (and even eventful) forces on our immediate future.
The symbols on this card suggest plans gone awry. The tower itself stands for manifestation, governance, power, and grandeur. From its summit, a crown is struck off by a lightning bolt, a divine intervention from the sky.
The crown symbolizes direct connection with the sacred; metaphorically, the one who wears it “stands before God.”
Seismic and Generational Changes
Pluto is the planet of transformation, power, and rebirth. When retrograde, it draws us back to old wounds and unconscious patterns that limit growth. This is when our shadows rise, not to punish, but to free us.
Pluto is the engine of evolution, the catalyst for the most profound alchemical transformations. The modern ruler of Scorpio was discovered around the same era as the development of the atomic bomb, a synchronicity that reveals much about its nature.
Named for the mythic god of the Underworld, Pluto leads us through darkness and challenges us to make the unconscious conscious through a sincere, steady commitment to dig for the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it is.
Pluto Decentralized Structures
Pluto in Aquarius seeks to free us from conditioning, social expectations, and the weight of tradition. To meet this shift, we’ll be asked to expand our energetic, emotional, and nervous-system capacity to keep pace with change. Over the coming year, expect a wave of independent, self-sustaining systems, communities, and organizations built on horizontal, decentralized structures rather than vertical hierarchies.
People will feel called to organize and join forces around shared purpose, taking responsibility for creating the reality they want to live in.
Pluto also magnifies the shadows of the sign it moves through.
While Pluto is in Aquarius, we may see intensifying elitism and social division, along with a tendency to ostracize, demonize, or “cancel” those with different views or worldviews.
We’re already living through rising polarization fueled by social media; during Pluto’s Aquarian transit, this is likely to continue, exacerbated by the spread of false or manipulated information through new technologies, including AI.
October invites us to go with the flow, as there are significant, archetypal, and atavistic forces at play.
It doesn’t mean being passive or apathetic; it means that transformational events are happening, and we should be alert and prepared.
Here is some advice about the energy forecast that would help you be prepared.
Heed early warning signs and act before the crisis escalates.
The Fear of losing what is familiar to you (including habits and routines) can block the growth you need.
Hidden truths may surface, ending constraints that were holding back your progress.
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About the Author
Liane Buck is a Creatrix from Sirius. Fairly Odd Mother of Saints (Bernards). Fish Tank aficionado by day, ninja by night. Liane is also the Editor-in-Chief of OMTimes Magazine and Ministry Earth Magazine, Co-Founder of Humanity Healing International and Humanity Healing Network, and Board Member of Saint Lazarus Relief Fund.
Liane is the co-author of The Hidden Arcana Tarot, https://hiddenarcanatarot.com/, and The Tao of Tarot, https://taotarot.com/. Learn more and order your book and deck at https://amzn.to/447w1xy
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