Death
This card presents Death as Morana, the Slavic winter queen, symbolizing necessary endings that clear space for renewal. It asks you to release what has completed its cycle with grace and ritual, acknowledging possible grief while honoring the passage. Upright, it signals decisive transformation and purification; reversed, it warns of clinging, delay, or half-measures that impede thaw and growth. The guidance is to name what is over, close the door respectfully, and allow surrender to turn endings into fertile ground for the next chapter.
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Visual description
A dark-haired woman in ornate Slavic dress rides a horse whose head is a bare bone skull. Horns rise from her headdress and long, colorful ribbons stream in the winter wind. Snow falls among leafless trees as she lifts one hand. Near the horse’s hooves, white snowdrops push up through the snow.
Meaning
Death rides here not as terror but as Morana, the winter queen of Slavic lore, passing through the bare forest while snowdrops whisper of the next season. She asks you to lay down what has finished its cycle, to cut cords with grace, and to make room for the first green shoots. Upright, this card announces a decisive ending and a deep transformation: identities, habits, roles, or bonds are shed like last year’s leaves. There may be grief, but the colorful ribbons suggest honoring the passage with a clear ritual or firm decision so that movement can begin. It is purification, pruning, and lean clarity, the cold that preserves the seeds until they are ready. Reversed, the thaw is resisted or delayed—you may cling to a husk, fear the empty space, or let half-measures stretch the farewell into stagnation. Name what is over, close the door, and bury it with respect, or the past will rattle like the horse’s skull beside you. Surrendering to the cycle turns endings into compost, and in that dark soil the next chapter quietly takes root.
Slavic Legends Tarot
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