XVI The Tower

This week’s Tarot-Draw is the 16th Major Arcana card The Tower.

How do we put the fun back in catastrophe?

Or the slow roll back into our soft-apocalypse?

Come on, don’t deny it - you can feel the oncoming change sparking up the atmosphere. It’s everywhere.

This card is so the vibes of the 2020’s pandemic.

Sometimes I ask myself how did everything get this awful, again?

And while different degrees of awful is one way to measure things, it’s not good for the soul long term.

Also, who has an effect radius the size of “everything”?

Life happens on its own terms and we have less control than we’d like.

Different degrees of how lonely something makes us feel is another shitty measuring stick in the tool kit of drama.

How lonely the Tower card must feel…

Everybody treats it like the villain of the deck.

How many times have you heard versions of “Don’t be afraid of the Death card, it’s the Tower you have to watch out for...”?

Cue lightning strikes and thunderclaps, like any classic horror movie worth its salt.

The Tower is only worse than death when death does not mean Death-Death but the Tower does.

So, what’s worse than death? Change.

Unwelcome change to be more specific and hyperbolic.

When the word drastic gets added to change it suddenly allows for a spectrum of meaning from torture by your worst fears to unavoidable action or so it seems.

There are fears everywhere.

There’s a fear on the other side of comfort- the loss of it…

Anyone else addicted to their particular brand of suffering?

I had a dream where I walked out of a mall and into the parking lot to yell “Welcome inevitable death!”

My subconscious seems to be braver than my conscious mind at the moment.

Just more Fight Club vibes to add on.

A little anarchy to spice things up…

Don’t forget to invite Chaos to the party, she’s crafty and will clap back.

It’s odd that we have a contemporary tower and its twin as an example that drastic change can happen to anyone anywhere.

I’d rather it be Rapunzel blowing up her prison mid-escape, but who wants to live in a world of arson inclined princesses?

If it were a show I’d watch it.

This week in Psychic Sleep we’ll touch on themes of: flying crowns; shut-in vibes; and spicy chaos.