| people avoid having a tarot reading done because | | | | head still clearing from the visions he saw as he hung |
| they are afraid of seeing the card of Death. There | | | | from the tree. The cold and wintry air and the bare |
| are many others that have had a Tarot reading done | | | | trees, then he sees before him a rising sun, and a |
| and the Death card was in their spread and now are | | | | skeleton all dressed in black riding a white horse. The |
| writing a will, or moping around mourning for their | | | | Fool asks, "Have I died?" The Fool is feeling empty |
| loss. It is very important that you have some | | | | inside. The Skelton answers back, "Yes in a way. You |
| understanding of what the cards mean. | | | | have sacrificed your old world, your old self. Both are |
| Typically you will see the Card of Death with a | | | | gone, they are dead." The Fool says, "How sad," and |
| skeleton, black robes or armour. You may also see | | | | the Skeleton agrees and says, "Yes, but it is the only |
| the Death Card as a flag with a white rose pictured | | | | way to be reborn. A new Sun is rising, and it is, for |
| on a black and desolate field. There can be a rising | | | | you, a time of great transformation." Death rides |
| sun and there could be other figures on the field, | | | | away and the Fool is left, feeling the truth of what |
| many times you will see a child. The proper name for | | | | the Skeleton has said. He begins to feel like a |
| the Death Card is Arcana; it does not mean a | | | | skeleton himself, stripped of everything. It is then |
| physical death. So if this card pops up, you do not | | | | that the Fool understands that this is how great |
| have to prepare for your funeral. | | | | transformation begins; you are stripped to the bone |
| What Arcana, the Death Card, actually means is that | | | | so that you can build anew. |
| there a symbolic death taking place, this can be | | | | This is not to say that the Death Card never means |
| transformation of sorts. Usually when this card comes | | | | a physical death under the right circumstances, the |
| into a spread it is telling the person that it is time to | | | | right circumstances being a person that is very old or |
| make some changes, or that there are changes | | | | very sick. Death is a transformation, from a lower |
| happening which they cannot control, but that they | | | | state to a higher state, Arcana is the signal for |
| are going to need to adapt to. This "death" is | | | | transformation or passage or change. |
| necessary for growth. We all experience these | | | | Scorpios is the sign associated with this card, and it |
| "deaths" throughout our lives we just don't see a | | | | has three faces or forms, the scorpion, serpent and |
| Death Card forewarning us. | | | | eagle. Arcana is the card of humility, so it can also |
| There is a story that goes along with the Death | | | | mean that this is a moment of low, when it feels as |
| Card, as there is for every card in the Tarot deck. | | | | though all is lost so that you can rebuild and go to a |
| Here is the story of the Arcana: | | | | place that is higher than where you ever were |
| It is said that the Fool left the tree he was hanging | | | | before. |
| from he begins to walk through a fallow field, his | | | | |