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The The Tower card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

Lightning strikes a crown from a tall tower and two figures fall from it, flames at the windows, points of light in the dark air.

Upright

  • Sudden change
  • Collapse
  • Revelation

The oldest reading is a structure coming down quickly, and the clarity that follows once it has. It is about a construction and not about a person, and it asks what you have already suspected would not hold.

Reversed

  • Averted
  • Slow crumble
  • Braced

Read reversed, either the fall is being held off at some expense, or the same collapse is happening slowly enough to be mistaken for stability.

About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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