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Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Elliot Adam, author of the new Fearless Tarot.
For many, the appearance of the Tower is often looked at as a disappointment. However, this card also holds the promise of a major psychological breakthrough. The Tower sweeps away any rationalizations based on artifice. It can remove the protective walls we've built around a sensitive vulnerability—which we may have trouble facing.
In this excerpt from my book, Fearless Tarot: How to Give a Positive Reading in Any Situation, I offer a constructive approach to viewing the tarot's most volatile card.
The Tower
The people falling from the Tower were prisoners of their own making.