Death
The Death tarot card symbolizes the end of a cycle, clearance, and the opportunity for a new beginning by embracing transformation. It teaches us the inevitability of change and the importance of letting go to progress to a higher level of understanding and existence. Death is not the opposite of life but the counterpart to birth, residing within the material world's cycle of renewal.
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Archetype of Death
Let death teach you how to live. As the Hanged Man falls to the ground, his red garment turns silky white, and his back sprouts white feathered wings. His chestnut hair grays, and the vampire transforms into a weeping, mourning angel. Death, with its scythe, moves through the forest, gathering souls as peasants harvest sheaves of compressed wheat. Summer ends, and the harvest season arrives. Death holds an hourglass. Time is up. A child in a nightgown looks up in wonder. Children accept things as they are until experience and education teach them to ask questions and to fear. Death hides in the dark corners of our soul until we are forced to deal with it. Death is not the opposite of life; life is infinite. Death is the opposite of birth, belonging to the material world. The infinity of life stretches far beyond the dance of birth and death. Consciousness awakens in the Fool and dissolves in complete unity with the World. Death is card number thirteen, a mysterious number with an occult significance. Death is the energy that constantly renews the material world.
Esoteric Death
Esoteric Death occurs during initiation into a magical or secret society. The old 'I' is discarded, and a new soul is born. Death dwells in savasana - the final, relaxing pose of yoga, through which the practitioner is fully transformed. Death inhabits the shadows, forests, and caves of gothic literature, movies, and horrors.
Learning from Death
How do we assimilate the lessons of Death? How can Death teach us to live? It teaches us that all things are constantly changing, both at the molecular level and in everyday life. Death is inevitable, as are changes in the weather. Death is the energy that allows emotions to arise, be experienced, and vanish only for new ones to take their place.
Values and Shadow
MEANING: The endpoint, the completion of being. Clearing the path. Achieving a fuller understanding. The beginning of true integration. A new start that leads to a higher level of cognition. Allowing to let go. SHADOW: Coercion. Using brute force to deal with a situation. Forcing others, dictatorial traits, domestic violence. Senseless destruction. Relishing in shock.
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