The tower is ambition, isolation and a vision from above. It can be a refuge or a prison. Falling towers, as in the tarot, speak of sudden collapse.
When the dream feels light
Climbing a tower speaks of perspective, progress and spiritual elevation.
When the dream feels dark
A collapsing tower or being locked in one points to pride, isolation or a sudden upheaval.
Ask yourself
Have I built myself a tower that isolates me?
Correspondences
- Archetype
- The Mask — The face you show the world, useful but not the whole truth.
- Element
- Fire — will, passion and change
- Planet
- Mars
- Tarot card
- The Tower
- Alchemical stage
- Nigredo, the Blackening
Ambition and isolation, and the fear of falling from what you have built.
Related signs
The Dog · Snow · The Mirror · Teeth · Hair · The Face · The Friend · The School
The card of this dream
The Tower. The lightning strike: a false tower falls so that the truth can stand. The Tower is struck by lightning; its crown flies off and two figures fall in flames. It is sudden upheaval, revelation and collapse of what was built on false foundations: painful, but liberating, because it clears the ground for truth.