Card 13

Death

Brief Description

The Death card embodies the notion of transformation and the inevitability of endings leading to new beginnings. It showcases a partially skeletal woman amidst a beautiful green garden, brimming with life through the flowers blossoming within her, symbolizing purity, innocence, hope, and the potential for rebirth. The butterfly emerges as a motif of transformation, signifying change and hope. The essence of the card is that death is not merely an end but the precursor to powerful new beginnings.

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Imagery

In front of a beautiful green garden, we see a woman whose upper chest reveals an open ribcage. Partly skeletal, she appears dead yet is full of life, her body a vessel for blooming flowers. White lilies growing from her skeleton symbolize purity, innocence, and hope. She gazes at a butterfly perched on one of the lilies, representing resurrection, life, transformation, change, and hope. The card conveys that death is not an end, but the start of a powerful new beginning.

Upright Meaning

Transformation, inevitable end, completion, loss, transition, finality

Reversed Meaning

Holding on to status, denial, prolonging the end

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✍️ Deck author(s): Catrin Welz-Stein

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