¡AY MAMÁ!
El Desmadre—like the oft-dreaded The Tower/La Torre—signals a big ontological earthquake, a time when your very foundations are being shaken, your roots pulled out from under you. In Spanish, a “desmadre” is not just any chaos, it is the mother of all chaos—a disorder so profound, it’s as if all our mothers suddenly disappeared and everything fell apart. It is, quite literally, a “dis-mothering.”
If you get El Desmadre in a reading, it signals a time of profound structural change. It might feel like you’re losing all your familiar ground. But take heart: this is more likely—especially after the reckoning of El Dictador—a crumbling of old structures, stories, relationships, or identities that have been trapping you in a tower, not letting you grow.
The comforting ay-bendito mother might not be here, but El Desmadre is the most radical chancletazo. ‘Approvechate’ this moment, take stock, and—when the time comes—rebuild from the ground up.
♫ “When It Comes Down” by Spiritchild
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If you didn’t know… Those two human figures have the face of my mother! That crown labeled “MAMÁ” is dislodged from the tower, and they fall amongst blue flip-flop chanclas.
This is part of our Winter 2022-23 issue featuring Chancletazo for Your Soul by Marlène Ramírez-Cancio, The Tarot Issue.
