The Tower Tarot Year Card (16): Meaning and Birthdays

A year of The Tower

The Tower holds a year of shake-up. A structure that looked solid, a plan, a belief, an arrangement, turns out not to be, and the change can come fast. It is the least comfortable year card, and often the one people are most grateful for later: what falls was not holding much up.

What the year asks

It asks you to let the truth land and to rebuild on it rather than on the old story. The shadow is bracing so hard against change that you rebuild the same tower.

Sitting with it

Ask yourself which part of your life you already suspect won't hold. Make one honest change before you have to.

Questions for the year

What in my life do I already know won't hold?
What truth have I been protecting myself from?
What do I want to build on the cleared ground?

Who has The Tower as a year card

Under Greer's method, in 2026 The Tower is the year card for 11 of the 366 birthdays (3%): March 30; April 29; May 28; June 27; July 26; August 25; September 24; October 23; November 22; December 21 and 30.

Under Greer's method, in 2027 The Tower is the year card for 14 of the 366 birthdays (4%): January 31; March 29; April 28; May 27; June 26; July 25; August 24; September 23; October 22 and 31; November 21 and 30; December 20 and 29.

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The card itself

The Tower: full tarot card meaning

The collapse that tells the truth.

If it is also your birth card

The Tower is also a birth card for some people. In the year it comes round as your year card, the theme you were born with is the one the year brings up.

Birth cards that include The Tower

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