Medium: anime
Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen
Character: Fushiguro Toji
Notes: 1 character tarot card for 14.05: "in the cards".

The Tower Tarot Card


The Tower card depicts a high spire nestled on top of the mountain. A lightning bolt strikes the tower which sets it ablaze. Flames are bursting in the windows and people are jumping out of the windows as an act of desperation. They perhaps signal the same figures we see chained in the Devil card earlier. They want to escape the turmoil and destruction within. The Tower is a symbol for the ambition that is constructed on faulty premises. The destruction of the tower must happen in order to clear out the old ways and welcome something new. Its revelations can come in a flash of truth or inspiration.


Upright Tower Meaning


The Tower represents change in the most radical and momentous sense. It is for this reason that the card itself visually looks so unnerving. But it doesn't necessarily have to be truly frightening or ominous. Because at the heart of this card, its message is foundational, groundbreaking change.


The kind of event that the Tower card marks does not have to be something terrible, like a disaster or a great loss. Change itself is a normal part of life that one has to embrace. But it can sometimes strike fear, for it means that we must abandon the truths that we have known prior to this event. The old ways are no longer useful, and you must find another set of beliefs, values and processes to take their place.


- Labyrinthos.co

I chose Toji for the Tower card because of what he means to Jujutsu Kaisen. He's a non-sorcerer who has no cursed energy; an anomaly in the Jujutsu Kaisen world where the people are divided between those who create cursed energy but can't use it (non-sorcerers) and those who can manipulate cursed energy (sorcerers).

Although he had no cursed energy, he was able to defeat 2 powerful sorcerers (Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru). His actions changed the fates of Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru; Gojo Satoru relentlessly honing himself to be strong enough to train and protect the next generation of sorcerers while Geto Suguru deciding that the only way to stop curses and cursed energy was to eliminate all non-sorcerers.

Toji was the catalyst which rocked the foundations of the Jujutsu Kaisen world.



-aliensamba; winter