The Tower is an Arcana in the Persona series. It is the sixteenth numbered card in the Major Arcana, numbered XVI16, following the Devil and preceding the Star.
A Tarot de Marseille Tower cardA Rider-Waite-Smith Tower card
In tarot, the Tower is the sixteenth of the 21 trump cards, which are called "Major Arcana" in esoteric usage. The imagery originates from Italian tarocchi decks, where it was originally called la Sagitta ("the lightning bolt", literally "the arrow"), now called la Torre. In French, it was called la Foudre ("lightning") or la Maison Dieu ("the house of God", referring to a kind of religious charity hospital). The Tower card typically features a tower being struck by lightning, with the top of the tower being broken off by the strike and people falling from the tower.
Arthur Edward Waite lists the following divinatory meanings in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot: "Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin. It is a card in particular of unforeseen catastrophe. Reversed: According to one account, the same in a lesser degree; also oppression, imprisonment, tyranny."[1]
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Nomenclature
Names in Other Languages
Language
Name
Meaning
English
Tower
Japanese
塔Tō
Tower
Simplified Chinese
塔Tǎ
Tower
Traditional Chinese
塔Tǎ
Tower
French
La Maison Dieu
The Poorhouse
German
Turm
Tower
Italian
Torre
Tower
Korean
탑塔Tap
Tower
Polish
Wieża
Tower
Brazilian Portuguese
Torre
Tower
Russian
БашняBashnya
Tower
Peninsular Spanish
La Torre
The Tower
Turkish
Kule
Tower
References
↑"The Greater Arcana and Their Divinatory Meanings", The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1922), Arthur Edward Waite. Published by William Rider & Son Limited. (2nd ed.) p. 286.
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English
Japanese
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French
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Italian
Korean
Polish
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Russian
Peninsular Spanish
Turkish