"The Tower" in the Tarot

Life in the "Earth School" is full of challenges. When we come as a new student, we are constantly faced with choices--whether to take the easy path, or to take the track with the potholes which is less travelled. Being the Green Goddess that she is, there is only one path through the jungle of naysayers and sceptics, twisting and turning along the way, sometimes taking wrong turnings, but always holding the vision of the destination. Sometimes there are markers along the way.

The Tower in the Tarot pack is one such marker. There, in front of your eyes, is the Tower of Babel crashing down around you. It seems that this can only fortel doom--but the new cannot be rebuilt until the old is destroyed.

Now is the time of the Tower. Saturn is in opposition to Uranus in the skies, as only happens once every 40 years. This marks the end of the old order as the new order is brought in. Stockmarkets and banking systems around the world are collapsing, and governments are being voted out. Our planet is crumbling ecologically.

The Green Goddess ponders how fascinating it is that the old order only sees collapse, while the new order has found hope--that the phoenix will rise out of the ashes. You see, too many of the Earth School students took the easy path and ignored the consequences--now they have come back to bite us.

How fascinating that on November 4th the new order, whose light had been hidden by the concrete structures of the old order, were able to come out from under their bushels and do something that they had not chosen to do before--vote! When one man walked out on to a stage and said hope/change--yes we can, a wave of emotion cirumnavigated the world. The Tower had fallen!

The Green Goddess always had passion, but what a gift from the gods now to have hope. Dream big--our spaceship we call earth becoming green again and all its creatures, both great and small, sharing in her abundance according to their need.

To paraphrase one of the precursors to the Man of Hope in the White House, Martin Luther King, who incidentally made his famous speech 40 years ago this year (Saturn-Uranus!), "I have a dream".