Sage Leaves: The Tower and Transgenerational Healing
Exploring the Meaning of The Tower Card for Transgenerational Healing
This Week in Sage Leaves
Welcome, wise ones, to this week’s Sage Leaves, as we move through the early days of Winter, when the cold still holds firm but the light has quietly begun its slow return. Yule and the Winter Solstice now rest behind us, and many are preparing to mark other winter holidays, including the symbolic turning of the calendar year. This is a liminal stretch of time, when endings and beginnings overlap, and reflection comes naturally as the world pauses between what has been and what is still forming.
This week, we return once more to The Tower, exploring how its energy shapes a Tarot reading when the focus is transgenerational healing. When this card appears, it asks difficult but necessary questions about inherited patterns, unexamined beliefs, and structures that can no longer stand. Alongside this exploration, you will also find the Tarotscope for December 23–29, 2025, offering insight and awareness for the days ahead as the year draws to a close and the next quietly approaches.
The Tower Card for Transgenerational Healing
When The Tower appears in a tarot reading focused on transgenerational healing, it signals a moment when inherited structures can no longer remain hidden or intact. This card does not arrive gently. It appears when patterns passed down through families have reached a breaking point and must be seen clearly in order to be released. In this context, The Tower is not about chaos for its own sake, but about truth breaking through layers of silence, denial, or normalization.
Transgenerational wounds often survive because they are invisible. Families adapt to trauma by building beliefs, rules, and behaviors that help them endure, even when those adaptations later cause harm. The Tower exposes these adaptations. It reveals where survival strategies have hardened into rigid identities or unquestioned traditions. This can include patterns around emotional suppression, control, shame, loyalty, or self sacrifice. When The Tower appears, the reading is pointing to a structure that once served a purpose but now limits growth.
In a healing-focused reading, The Tower often marks the moment when the querent realizes that the pain they carry did not originate with them. This realization can be shocking. It can also be relieving. The card invites a shift from self blame to understanding. It shows where the burden being carried belongs to a wider family story rather than to one individual life. This awareness is a critical step in transgenerational healing, because release cannot happen without recognition.
Emotionally, The Tower may indicate grief, anger, or confusion surfacing as long buried truths come into view. These emotions are not signs of failure. They are signs that the psyche is ready to reorganize. In this way, The Tower acts as a doorway. It breaks open what has been sealed off so that healing can begin. Without this rupture, the system would continue repeating itself across generations.
“The Tower does not destroy what is true;
it reveals what was never meant to last.”
Importantly, The Tower does not ask the querent to destroy their family or reject their lineage. Instead, it asks for discernment. What beliefs were shaped by fear rather than wisdom. What roles were inherited without consent. What loyalties demand silence at the cost of wellbeing. In a transgenerational reading, The Tower helps separate love from obligation and care from endurance.
This card can also appear when the querent is on the verge of making a different choice than those who came before them. This choice may feel disloyal at first. The Tower reassures that breaking a harmful pattern is not betrayal. It is evolution. Healing a lineage often requires someone willing to tolerate discomfort so future generations do not have to carry the same weight.
In practical terms, The Tower in a healing spread suggests that surface level solutions will not be enough. Deeper work is required. This may involve difficult conversations, boundary setting, grief work, or letting go of long held identities. While this can feel destabilizing, the card reminds us that what falls was already unstable. Healing begins when truth replaces pretense.
Finally, The Tower carries hope, even when it does not look like it. Once a false structure collapses, there is space to rebuild with intention. New stories can be chosen. New ways of relating can take root. In transgenerational healing, this is the moment when the past loosens its grip on the future. The card affirms that liberation is possible, but only after what no longer serves is allowed to fall.
What belief, role, or family story might you be carrying that no longer belongs to you, and what would become possible if you allowed it to fall away?
🌿 Sage Leaves Weekly Tarotscope
December 23-29, 2025
As this week unfolds, you stand at a quiet threshold between what has been completed and what is still forming. The cards speak of legacy, effort, meaning, and choice. There is a sense that something larger than a single week is at work here. Do not rush forward, rather you should take stock of your situation. This is a week that asks you to notice what endures, what must be tended carefully, and what you are ready to leave behind as the next cycle begins.
The Cards of the Week
Tuesday: 10 of Pentacles – Moon in Aquarius Sextile Mercury in Sagittarius
Wednesday: 8 of Pentacles – Venus Enters Capricorn
Thursday: The World – Moon in Pisces Sextile Mars in Capricorn
Friday: The Hermit – Moon in Pisces Trine Jupiter in Cancer
Saturday: The Moon – Moon in Aries Sextile Pluto in Aquarius
Sunday: 8 of Cups – Moon in Aries Trine Mercury in Sagittarius
Monday: 7 of Cups– Moon in Taurus Trine Venus in Capricorn
Daily Story
Tuesday: 10 of Pentacles
Tuesday opens with The 10 of Pentacles, grounding you in themes of stability, inheritance, and long term wellbeing. This is about more than money or material comfort. It speaks to what has been built over time and what you are carrying forward, whether consciously or not. With the Moon supporting clear communication, this is a good day to talk about values, plans, or family matters. You may feel called to consider how your current choices affect the future, not just your own but others as well.
Wednesday: 8 of Pentacles
Wednesday turns your attention to steady effort. The 8 of Pentacles asks for focus and patience. This is a day for showing up and doing the work, even if the progress feels slow. Venus entering Capricorn reinforces this energy. Care becomes practical. Love shows itself through reliability and commitment. Small, consistent actions matter more than grand gestures right now.
Thursday: The World
On Thursday, The World brings a sense of completion and integration. Something reaches a natural endpoint. This does not mean everything is finished, but rather that a cycle has taught what it needed to teach. With emotional awareness working smoothly alongside purposeful action, you may feel both reflective and ready to move on. This is a moment to honor what has been accomplished before turning the page.
Friday: The Hermit
Friday invites reflection on tradition, belief, and guidance. The Hierophant looks directly at you, asking you to consider which teachings still serve you and which no longer fit. This can relate to family expectations, spiritual paths, or cultural norms. The supportive trine encourages compassion and emotional understanding. You may find wisdom in revisiting old teachings with fresh eyes.
Saturday: The Moon
Saturday deepens the emotional terrain. The Moon brings uncertainty, intuition, and the unseen into focus. You may feel restless or aware of undercurrents you cannot yet name. This is not a day for forcing clarity. It is a day for listening. Subtle insights can surface if you allow space for them. Transformation is happening quietly, beneath the surface.
Sunday: 8 of Cups
Sunday offers a turning point. The 8 of Cups appears again, reminding you of a choice to walk away from what no longer fulfills you. This is not a dramatic exit. It is a calm decision rooted in self honesty. With communication flowing easily, you may find the words to explain this choice to yourself or others. Movement forward feels necessary now.
Monday: 7 of Cups
The week closes with The 7 of Cups, highlighting options, illusions, and discernment. Not every possibility deserves your energy. This card asks you to slow down and choose carefully. Grounded emotional support helps you separate fantasy from what is truly workable. You do not need to decide everything at once. You only need to choose wisely.
“This is a week of quiet thresholds, where honoring what has endured
makes room for choosing what comes next.”
Overarching Themes
This week balances completion with discernment. The presence of The World, The Hierophant, and The Moon suggests a progression from understanding what has been achieved, to questioning inherited beliefs, to listening inwardly before making the next move. The recurring 8 of Cups reinforces the importance of conscious departure from paths that no longer align.
Pentacles emphasize effort, legacy, and sustainability. Cups highlight emotional honesty and choice. There is little urgency here. Instead, the week encourages thoughtful pacing and grounded reflection.
Numerology and Recurring Cards
The repetition of the number eight points to cycles, mastery, and karmic balance. The presence of seven reminds you that clarity comes through reflection, not force. Together, these numbers suggest a week of meaningful inner recalibration.
Conclusion
As the week draws to a close, you are reminded that not all progress is loud or visible. Some of the most important shifts happen quietly, through recognition and choice. You are allowed to honor what has served you and still move on. The cards affirm that this is not loss. It is alignment.
What are you ready to complete, and what are you quietly preparing to leave behind as you step into the next cycle of your journey?
Until Next Time...
As the week comes to a close, notice how the cards mirror the turning of the year. The Winter Solstice now rests behind us, marking the longest night and the quiet hinge between what has ended and what is beginning again. Even as Winter tightens its grip on the land, the days have begun, almost imperceptibly, to lengthen. In this season of long shadows and slow light, The Tower stands as an unexpected teacher. It asks you to look honestly at what has shaped you without your consent, the beliefs and burdens inherited from the past that may no longer belong in the life you are living now.
The deepening cold and early darkness invite reflection rather than retreat. These long evenings are not empty. They are generous. They offer space to see old patterns clearly, to name what is ready to fall away, and to choose with care what you will carry forward into the new year. As the light gradually returns, so does the possibility of renewal. May you honor what is ready to end, trust what is ready to transform, and move into the coming days with steady faith in your own capacity to rebuild with intention as the season of returning light slowly unfolds.
Take care, be well, and good-bye for now,
— Dr. Winkler
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