Lighthouse = Tower card in Tarot?

[LostMyMarbles]

I'm surprised no one has yet brought up this symbolic association for the Lighthouse: The Tower card in tarot. Recall that the lighthouse incorporates a fire, that Jack breaks the mirror and that the tower is on the coast, so the association is almost literal.

From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_%28Tarot_card%29

In this manuscript picture of the Harrowing of Hell, Jesus forces open the fiery tower gate of Hell to free the virtuous dead from Limbo.

A tower has just been hit by lightning and is aflame. The top of the tower is crumbling and falling to the ground beneath. In some decks, two figures fall from the top of the tower; in others, the people themselves are on the ground in flames or are themselves hit by the lightning. Sometimes they are simply onlookers to the fire.

Some frequent keywords used by card readers are:

* Chaos ----- Sudden change ----- Impact ----- Hard times

* Crisis ----- Revelation ----- Disruption ----- Realizing the truth

* Disillusion ----- Crash ----- Burst ----- Uncomfortable experience

* Downfall ----- Ruin ----- Ego blow ----- Explosive transformation


From http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/learn...gs/tower.shtml


A tower on a rocky outcrop, a powerful bolt of lightning, one or two figures falling from the tower, sometimes waves crashing below.

As the Fool leaves the throne of the Goat God, he comes upon a Tower, fantastic, magnificent, and familiar. . . . Inside the Tower, at the top, arrogant men still live, convinced of their rightness. . . . Seeing the Tower again, the Fool feels as if lightning has just flashed across his mind; he thought he'd left that old self behind when he started on this spiritual journey. But he realizes now that he hasn't. He's been seeing himself, like the Tower, like the men inside, as alone and singular and superior, when in fact, he is no such thing. . . . A bolt of . . . lightning slashes down from the heavens, striking the Tower . . . .

. . . . The Fool experiences grief, profound fear and disbelief. But also, a strange clarity of vision, as if his inner eye has finally opened. He tore down his resistance to change and sacrifice (Hanged man), then broke free of his fear and preconceptions of death (Death); he dissolved his belief that opposites cannot be merged (Temperance) and shattered the chains of ambition and desire (The Devil). . . .

. . . The Tower is a card about war, a war between the structures of lies and the lightning flash of truth. The Tower, as Wang points out, stands for "false concepts and institutions that we take for real." . . . . The tearing down of this structure, however painful, makes room for something new to be built.

. . . . False structures, false institutions, false beliefs are going to come tumbling down.

[Theodwra]

Great post, thanks for pointing it out.

You think the 4 mirrors-4 toes might be significant? In terms of self-entrapment I mean.

[LostMyMarbles]

Glad you liked it, Theodwra.

Would you care to elaborate about what significance the number 4 might have? Other than being one of "the numbers"?

[Devera]

Thanks, I wouldn't have thought about this...very interesting...also interesting is this is card number 16, one of our numbers (the one associated now with "JARRAH").

Maybe T was thinking about the number "4" being associated with Locke.

[Theodwra]

Sure, LostMyMarbles.

In my attempt to simplify -and perhaps find a pattern- to this mess called Lost, I tend to think of our Losties, and everything on the Island, as human body parts.

The statue would then be the feminine body (half of a whole body) and what's left of it is a foot. So I assume that all the bits and pieces discovered on the island (Dharma stations, lighthouse, even the cabin maybe) are scattered pieces of the broken statue.

If that's true then maybe the lighthouse is one of the eyes. I found it interesting that there were 4 mirrors, just as the statue has 4 toes. If we consider this mess to be a broken body structure, the 4 mirrors could be connected to the 4 toes. Like strings on an instrument.

Dev, I wasn't really thinking about the numbers and Locke but it could somehow tie in with my theory I guess. Flocke says he is trapped, Locke was paralyzed, and we know from FBs that Smokie has been "haunting" John since childhood.

[Devera]

Originally Posted by Theodwra

Sure, LostMyMarbles.

In my attempt to simplify -and perhaps find a pattern- to this mess called Lost, I tend to think of our Losties, and everything on the Island, as human body parts.

The statue would then be the feminine body (half of a whole body) and what's left of it is a foot. So I assume that all the bits and pieces discovered on the island (Dharma stations, lighthouse, even the cabin maybe) are scattered pieces of the broken statue.

If that's true then maybe the lighthouse is one of the eyes. I found it interesting that there were 4 mirrors, just as the statue has 4 toes. If we consider this mess to be a broken body structure, the 4 mirrors could be connected to the 4 toes. Like strings on an instrument.

Dev, I wasn't really thinking about the numbers and Locke but it could somehow tie in with my theory I guess. Flocke says he is trapped, Locke was paralyzed, and we know from FBs that Smokie has been "haunting" John since childhood.

Hey, good to meet you! I actually was wondering the other day if anyone had formalized the theory that everyone is part of a large body (the Island). I will now know to go to you if any observations come up to that effect.

[Theodwra]

Originally Posted by Devera

Hey, good to meet you! I actually was wondering the other day if anyone had formalized the theory that everyone is part of a large body (the Island). I will now know to go to you if any observations come up to that effect.

Hey you wanna start a "Fix the doll, Jack" thread? Charlie is the throat, for sure.

[Devera]

Originally Posted by Theodwra

Hey you wanna start a "Fix the doll, Jack" thread? Charlie is the throat, for sure.

It sounds like you have thought about this more in depth than I have other than the general idea that they seem to all be parts of a greater whole entity...let me know if hyou start a thread. I would be happy to discuss it.