Death
Death symbolizes endings that are also transformations, where the close of one thing compels the beginning of another. Endings may be chosen or forced and touch all areas of life—stages, relationships, and careers. Your response—grief, wonder, acceptance, or denial—shapes the experience of the ending. Resisting the inevitable brings suffering, while accepting the pain and change allows you to move forward without fear.
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Meaning
Even after the end, there is someone there, standing witness and heralding what's to come.
Expanded Meaning
Death is the end, but there can be so many deaths and so many endings, and really what each one signifies is a transformation. An ending of one thing forces the beginning of something else, and it is how we treat that transition that truly defines the end. It may be an ending that you have chosen or one that was forced upon you. Ends come to all things: stages of life, relationships, and careers. You can greet the end in many different ways: with pain and sorrow, wonder and excitement, stoic acceptance, or outright denial. If you look beyond this ending to what is to come, there is nothing to fear. In truth, it is only in fighting the inevitable end of something that one suffers. Accept the pain that comes with an ending, and accept that you have changed alongside everything else. Exit stage right with grace.
Visual Description
A large white horse stands amid a field of fallen figures and debris beneath a vivid red-orange sky. Centered over the horse is a dark rectangular banner or inset showing a skeleton holding a scythe with a small golden crown hovering above its skull. The Roman numeral XIII appears at the top of the card and the word DEATH. is printed along the bottom edge.
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