Death
Death depicts a skeletal rider on a white horse approaching a group of people, symbolizing inevitable endings and profound transformation. The card's stark imagery—glowing eyes, red veins, a black banner with a rose, and distant towers—emphasizes transition and the interplay of life, decay, and renewal. Upright, it signals transformation, rebirth, spiritual endings, and the necessity of letting go to enable evolution. Reversed, it warns of reluctance to change, obsessive thinking, and being stuck in repetitive patterns, urging acceptance of loss as a catalyst for growth.
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Description
A massive white horse with a skeletal rider approaches a group of people. The horse's eyes glow orange and steam blows through its nostrils. Red veins connect the horse to its skeletal rider. The skeleton wears red-tinted armor. A silver cross appears on the chest plate. The face plate is up, displaying the grotesque form underneath. The skeleton holds a black banner with a rose on it. His scythe has been affixed to a holster on the horse. Four people are on the ground. Two towers can be seen off in the distance through the haze.
Keyword
Transformation
Hebrew letter
Nun, meaning fish
Correspondences
Scorpio, Mars, Pluto
Upright
transformation; rebirth; a spiritual end; let go; evolution.
Reversed
reluctance to change; obsessive thoughts; holding back; stuck in repetition.
Visual Description
A skeletal knight in full armor rides a large white horse across a misty plain, carrying a black banner decorated with a white rose emblem. The Roman numeral "XIII" appears at the top of the card and at the bottom Cyrillic text reads "Смерть" while the watermark "TAROSHOP.RU" is visible. In the foreground a fallen figure lies on the ground as a kneeling woman, a child holding a bouquet of flowers, and a praying cleric face the rider. Two towered structures stand in the distant background and a few birds are seen in the sky.
Heaven and Earth tarot
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