Things Come tumbling Down

The Tower card in tarot features the image of a tower building falling down, stuck by lightning, on fire and people falling. It’s destruction at a foundational level. It’s chaotic and discombobulating.

It can be scary AF. Or just another Tuesday.

Tower moments are never easy.

Sometimes things come crumbling down. Because they should. Because they need to. We need them to. Picture the Tower card from tarot. What we thought was strong and stable falling apart. It can be chaotic and life changing.

The last few years have been a long Tower Moment for me. Pulling the rug out from under my feet. While things could’ve been worse, I ended up feeling as if I couldn’t have the sort of life I wanted. The one that I had been working toward. It left me feeling like having a good life wasn’t something I was going to be allowed to have.

I think we all experience this sort of thing at different times in our lives. A Tower Moment can happen to anyone. I don’t say that as some sort of fear based motivation. It’s just part of life.

How do we move past it? Begin the process of creating something better for ourselves?

I’m not sure I’ve totally figured that out yet.  It took me a long time to realize that my Tower Moments weren’t the end of everything. That I could still work toward the life I wanted. It just might look a little different.

Tower Moments are opportunities.

They don’t look like it. Not in the moment when things are going to shit. Sometimes not even after the dust has settled. Or you’ve finally found the shove to deal with all that shit.

They give us the opportunity to make changes quickly, in ways we might not have thought possible or change we didn’t know we needed. That is some powerful shit.

How you deal with your Tower Moments is totally up to you, but there is no Positivity Policing your way out. You do the work of changing things. Build a stronger foundation. Or you don’t and build up another rickety ass tower.