Death
Death in this deck represents endings that clear away what no longer serves, making space for renewal and transformation. Upright, it signals sweeping conclusions and necessary purges; reversed, it warns of resistance, delay, and the cost of clinging to the past. Its scythe symbolizes the severing of patterns, relationships, jobs, or beliefs that must be relinquished, and the card asks you to honestly inventory what is dying in your life. Approach endings with sober intention—honoring loss shortens its sting and allows the green shoot of new growth to emerge.
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Visual Description
A pale woman in a red headscarf and layered skirt stands barefoot on dark soil, holding a large scythe across her shoulder. To her right, a translucent childlike figure floats, and at her feet lie a detached doll-like head and a pocket watch, beside a ruined stone column and a gnarled tree. The scene is enclosed in an ornate gold frame with a plaque reading 'Miss Amalie Todd DEATH crooked-way tarot.'
Overview
Death in this deck arrives as a stern, Victorian-haunted cutter of endings and renewal: upright, she brings sweeping conclusions and the clearing away of what no longer serves so new growth can take root; reversed, she warns of stubborn clinging, stalled transitions, and the cost of avoiding release.
Scythe
The scythe she bears is both literal and figurative, severing patterns, relationships, jobs, or beliefs that must be relinquished.
Upright and Reversed
In the upright stance expect a purge that feels absolute but that opens real space for transformation and rebirth; when reversed, expect delay, denial, or the ache of resisting change until it becomes unavoidable.
Guidance
This card asks you to inventory what is dying in your life and to tend the remnants honestly rather than embalming illusions.
Tone
The tone is somber rather than cruel—an ending can be medicine if you let it enter, and apparent loss often contains the seed of another way forward.
Timing
Notice timing and the symbolic corpses you keep on the shelf; moving through Death with intention shortens its sting and accelerates the green shoot hidden beneath the soil.
Crooked Way tarot
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