I was getting a little nervous because I kept seeing the Death card.
And not just any Death card — but the Death card over and over in certain positions of certain spreads as well as some astrological hints, in the form of Saturn and… I was getting a little nervous.
I didn’t know what it was about, and NO all the usual keywords were not enough. It’s change! It’s transformation! It’s an end! And a beginning! It’s NOT A LITERAL DEATH. Or maybe it fucking IS.
So I consulted my guides — human and ethereal — and I got some insight BUT STILL… something remained OPEN in me. The question remained open, like a ticket. An open ticket when your website isn’t working properly and you are waiting for the call back team!
AND THEN THE OTHER NIGHT WHEN I COULD NOT SLEEP I HAD AN INSIGHT about the Death card showing up in my life at this time because I thought it was X. And then I thought it was Y. And then Z. And then I WOKE UP TO THE FACT THAT I AM THE DEATH CARD AND I HAVE TO CHANGE.
See, I was looking at everyone and everything… but me.
That’s ME in the mirror (I wrote to myself). I have to change. I have to die – metaphorically speaking 🙂 It’s ME.
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I wanted to address someone I had a reading with this evening. I don’t even know if she reads my blog but she, like many Aries Rising, has Mars transiting her 7th House now — and until summer 2014.
The MOST IMPORTANT THING you can do, for yourself, and for your relationships in 2014 is to make a CHOICE. Not outsource your choice. Not reflect the desires of others. Not create chaos. Not create NO CHOICE situations, where secrets come out and thus you are forced into this way or that way. But instead — BEFORE THAT POINT of no return (and this gal has Pluto in her 7th as well and a Scorpio Moon so you know it ain’t easy for her!)
Maybe she too needs to see Death on his white horse raising the banner and heralding CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE *and* die.
This is not drama. This is not dramarama. This is real life! The Tarot is real life! It is showing us what we need to know, always. But what we need to know is often below below below below and then a little more below the surface.
What cards are YOU seeing?
Love, MP
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11 thoughts on “Tarot Talk: You Are The Death Card”
Hello.
Tarot isn’t a habit of mine yet, but a card found me while I was out a couple of nights ago.
An ex-flame & I went for a moonlit wander; Camden, Holborn, round down to the Thames, along the river past the London Eye, Parliament, Big Ben, Southbank and back around. I was craving some grounding and warmth (affection) and a sense of wanting to rekindle an appreciation and gratefulness for the city I live in. We stopped on the way home in an old pub. As he walked out the door he said ‘Queen of Spades!’
He’d just picked up a tiny playing card out of nowhere. He gave it to me, and I brought it home to find its significance.
If she represents The Queen of Swords, I think she’s another clue to the lesson I’m on now.
Maybe it’s about (fierce) independence and (fits of needy) co-dependence, maybe it’s about impulsiveness and the benefits of taking slow, thoughtful, focussed action. Especially creatively.
Maybe it’s about the pleasure in solitude. It’s certainly interesting exploring meanings.
LOL- sometimes FINALLY “getting” Thee Revelation is such a jolt.
Great post.
Now what IF, DEATH keeps parading thru telling you to NOTICE! THAT you’ve changed- HOW you’ve changed?
Maybe you went thru it, but the sand hasn’t settled enough for you to understand what a huge breakthru you actually NOW HAVE- it’s like OK the wall IS painted, but after you finished you didn’t look back to REALLY SEE how well it’s going with the rest of the room’s ensemble. Yay? Nay?
>^:^<
Hey lady xoxoxo hugs to you
How timely…! I’m also an aries rising with pluto in the seventh (and my scorpio mars, too), and it’s funny and terrifying and liberating (all in the same hour) to see this ‘death’ energy play out. Sometimes by force, or just that gentle nudge of the universe that no longer makes the no-choice/rigging the deck scenario an option… mostly because it just doesn’t settle well in this Saturn scorp season, like all the exhilaration of past drama and crises parading around as this deeper struggle of passion and soul connections revealed itself for what it really was, and is: a personal lack of boundaries or choice or just a fear to name what we value and stick to our gut. True equality and honesty. A good old dose of reality in the form of death… transformation and healing. It takes courage to let go of what you think you know about yourself:-).
I’ve been reading your blog for months now, poring through your archives and marveling at your cancerian hearth-making-ways vis-a-vis this blog and your uniquely whimsical, but intense, style of writing… you’ve helped me through my first Saturn return! I turn 30 at the very end of the month, and even though I rarely splurge on myself, a reading by you is going to be my gift to myself!
Blessings to you!
Blessings to you too, Meg. Well let me know if you decide to splurge 🙂 xoxo Thanks for your kind thoughts. Glad you are perusing the archives!
You know, I am all about the pictures:
I think it is very interesting that this card has a picture of a dead king–representing WORLDLY power. But there is a glowing religious figure accompanied by two children–and THEY are all alive!!
Then in the middle-ground there is a body of water with a ship on it, suggesting that some sort of journey lies ahead before one can get to the land beyond the gateway to the rebirth of the rising sun that is in the very back-ground of the image.
I don’t know what the other Death cards in this deck are like, but this is the 13 card. What does that mean? And why is Death holding a flag with a White Flower on it? Is it a symbol of Purity? Rebirth? Infinite Love?
Oh honey, Lyone, you can imagine, much has been written about Tarot cards in general and the Death card in particular, the symbolism of this deck versus others. This deck, to me, is at the center of 20th Century esoteric history…
I understand your comments concerning The Death Card quite well, as this is my 46th year of studying the TAROT! Death comes in three movements, in my experience. First is the surrender! Second is the process! Third is the rebirth! Surrender quickly holding on to nothing and the process wil be rapid with rebirth a joyous reintegration into a new awareness and way of experiencing life. She who hesitates is lost and a difficult time consuming struggle begins. The card that has shown up for me is The Star! I have embraced it as my significator and even after all these years I am still amazed by all the intricacies and depth inherent in this one major arcana!! It’s implications are endless, just as in all of the arcana!
46 years is a very long time!
A life long commitment to the study eclipsed only by my study of Astrology for 50 years as of last February! Learning and teaching these perspectives has consumed most of my free time.
The Death card reminds me of my former Tarot reader, William
It was my first Tarot reading and he read those cards like he was inside me — I was amazed. The Death card along with many Swords showed up. I was terrified but he explained it and he was spot on.
We became friends for a few years until we lost touch — I miss him dearly.
I know you like music too and when you wrote “This is real life” this song popped up http://slack-time.com/music-video-13936-ladyhawke-black-white-and-blue