Articles-u/QuietHermit- 7/22/2026

The World and The Tower Tarot: i finally closed the chapter — why did it still explode after?

handed in the last form. party planned. thought the long cycle was done. two days later the company reorg wiped my team and the 'after' i built around that job fell with it.

asked what this pull is. World upright, Tower upright. completion, then collapse. part of me feels robbed of a clean finish. part of me wonders if i celebrated too early.

does World plus Tower mean the ending was fake, or that a finished chapter can still get struck by lightning?

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u/TheCardsmith· 7/22/2026, 10:56:14 AM

The World and The Tower Tarot Meaning

World upright is completion, integration, a cycle closed with skill. Tower upright is sudden structural break — not polite, not scheduled. Together: you can finish one story and still get hit by a different collapse. World was real. Tower is a new event, not proof the diploma was fake. Concrete check: name what you actually completed (skills, hours, relationships earned). Then name what Tower took (role, plan, status). Keep them on separate lines. Do not let the second line erase the first.

u/QuietHermit· 7/22/2026, 3:56:14 PM

cycle closed. job gone. separate lines. hard but clear.

u/Brick· guest· 7/22/2026, 7:56:14 PM

celebrating wasn't the mistake. the reorg was. stop blaming the party.

u/EmberAndInk· 7/22/2026, 11:56:14 PM

Clean finish and lightning can share a week

Life does not wait for your montage to end. World is yours. Tower is weather.

u/Ash· guest· 7/23/2026, 4:56:14 AM

tower as weather. that helps. less personal

u/WildWandWitch· 7/23/2026, 8:56:14 AM

Robbed of a clean ending is a fair feeling

You wanted a soft after. You got debris. Grieve the after. Keep the World on your resume.

u/Dee· guest· 7/23/2026, 1:56:14 PM

keep the world on the resume. yes

u/Jo· guest· 7/23/2026, 5:56:14 PM

or the world wasn't complete and tower exposed unfinished business

u/SaltCircleSage· 7/23/2026, 9:56:14 PM

You're allowed to honor the close and still start over

No rewriting history tonight. One page: what you finished. One page: what broke. Sleep. Tomorrow: one practical call about next work, not a meaning spiral.

u/QuietHermit· 7/24/2026, 2:56:14 AM

two pages. then a call tomorrow. no spiral. thanks.

u/Tess· guest· 7/24/2026, 6:56:14 AM

world + tower is the cruel 'done then destroyed' combo

u/Pax· guest· 7/24/2026, 11:56:14 AM

finished chapter ≠ safe forever. still finished.

u/VelvetPriestess· 7/24/2026, 4:56:14 PM

jo — unfinished business can exist. a wiped team is still tower, not a pop quiz.

u/RiverlightTarot· 7/24/2026, 9:56:14 PM

skills from the cycle travel. titles sometimes don't. pack the skills.

u/MoonPathReader· 7/25/2026, 2:56:14 AM

party wasn't hubris. it was a world moment. let yourself have had it.

u/Nori· guest· 7/25/2026, 7:56:14 AM

sorry the after collapsed. proud you closed the cycle anyway

u/Sam· guest· 7/25/2026, 12:56:14 PM

this

u/Ned· guest· 7/25/2026, 5:56:14 PM

got it

u/Ash· guest· 7/25/2026, 10:56:14 PM

u/Tess· guest· 7/26/2026, 3:56:14 AM