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On Foundations...

On   Foundations The Tower tarot card shows us a stone tower crumbling. Our first thought: Disaster!    2020 was indeed a year of toppling Towers. And now in 2021 it looks like the house of cards that was erected in place of The Tower is also toppling. What will we build in its stead?   The Tower card in the Smith-Waite deck (a.k.a. Rider Waite or Universal Waite) shows a burning tower that has been struck by lightning. People are hurtling towards the Earth. But if you look closely you will notice that they fall through many  yods . These  yods  may look like flames but are actually the Hebrew letter that is the beginning of the Tetragrammaton, the unpronounceable name of the God.    And if we examine Pamela Coleman Smith’s artwork carefully we see that The Tower rests on a foundation that is incapable of holding it up.   It might be lightning that sets the fire, but it is the faulty foundation that gives us little alternative other than jumping.   We can compare our lives to the Tower