One of the trumps of the Major Arcana of the tarot. Numbered XVI. In the system of Eliphas Levi, it corresponds to the Hebrew letter Ayin and the heaven of the Moon. In the system of the Golden Dawn, The Tower corresponds to the Hebrew letter Peh and the planet Mars.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Alice Markham-Cantor, author of the new Once & Future Witch Hunt.
My 9x-great-grandmother, Martha Carrier, was hanged in the Salem witch trials. She wasn't a witch. She wasn't an herbalist or a...