Tower - Uranus Conjunct Mars

[Jewel13]

This may not be the best place for this, but wasn't sure which forum to use. I am very much a beginner, but have started doing a daily tarot card pull to work and learn the card I pull. I have RWS deck. Today I pulled the Tower and was sitting in the energy of it. I believe the the astrological planet for the Tower is Mars, but when sitting with the energy of it. I thought of Mars conjunct Uranus. This conjunction can lead to an explosion - shift in identity. Just curious if anyone else has made that association or if I am way off.

[DanielJUK]

Hi @Jewel13 I meant to reply here about 2 weeks ago and just remembered about your post 🙂 . You did post about it in the perfect place

 

RWS and Thoth decks are both from the Golden Dawn tradition but the Thoth actually has astrological symbols on the cards of the associations.

 

@Rose Lalonde on the forum wrote an amazing introductory guide to this topic a few years ago which is over here

 

So yes Tower is Mars that is an association. But conjunct Uranus is not traditionally right. The Golden Dawn didn't actually assign the modern planets cards, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. In modern times, some people use them associated with cards and Uranus is The Fool. The Tower is Mars (Fire) and The Fool is Uranus (Air). I think you could get the energy you talk about if you pulled the two cards together as a pair, that would be quite explosive!

[Jewel13]

Thank you!! Super helpful

[Deian]

Hi!
One way we can view that is if we use the Tree of Life alignment to the cards. And there is more then one way to do that, also more then two, but anyway, using the one I enjoy Mars is very nice choice. As that is Gevurah in the Tree and that is where, is usually accepted the Tree has broken, technically that is the Sephira that brakes apart. So the cards that doesn't seem right, have to be connected to Mars one way or another(The Tower, The Devil etc.)

 

Uranus, however, doesn't have much to do with it, in my humble view. As Uranus suggests amount of craziness, that the Tower do not carry. nothing crazy there, someone build a tower, that prevented them interacting with the world, at some point it fell apart. All is stuff we see everyday, even if catastrophic, potentially, but no one is mad or crazy here, normal human process of building up "protection" or "self esteem" etc. that is not based in our true self, so falls apart with that card.
And if we view it like that, then Path has to be Mars > Sun/ Sun > Mars. From the defense that is needed when buildling the tower to the True Self that is what is left when the Tower falls in pieces.

And the other way around as well. Someone was very open and true to their own self from the Sun, is slowy getting more defensive and building up a construction around themselves to guard interactions with the world with Mars.

Of course, that is also change from times of War to times of Peace and the other way around. But in general is falling apart of structures that aren't flexible enough to change when change is vital.

So in the lineages I enjoy, Mars is very much on point, but Uranus suggest something often insane, unusual and following its own understanding of its Path. Nothing to do with the Tower.