Major arcana
Death
Death
end of cycletransformationreleaserenewal
Upright
The end of what has exhausted itself and a transition to a new quality. This is rarely literal loss — more often a change of form.
- Transformation
- Clearing
- Fresh start
Reversed
Clinging to the past or fear of letting go. While you hold the old, the new enters quietly and with difficulty.
- Resistance to change
- Stagnation
- Heaviness
Myth and symbol: Death
Death in Tarot is the rider of renewal: what no longer nourishes gives way to what can live again.
An artistic retelling of the card's symbolism, not a historical treatise.