My personal interpretation is that the daeth card is
positive. It relates to relationships and that the ones
were stagnated or not meant to be or all over. It's
time to "Clean the room" and allow space for something
bigger and brighter to lighten up my life, rather than
hanging onto the dark past that shadows the future.
It's now time and something is coming, something
better.
Liz Tyrrell (liztyrrell@yahoo.com.au)
Harvest of matured thoughts, acitons, behaviours,
patterns. Clearing away the old to allow the new some
space to develop. The earth may be fertile or
exhausted, but in any case, it cannot hold any more.
The natural time has come to reap and put an end to the
old. Compared to 10 swords and the Tower, which can be
arbitrary in nature, this card calls the querant to
undertake the task of harvest.
Tania
Death- It is best card in the deck. It fortells of
transformation, from the end or leaving of the lower
realm into the beginning or entrrance into the higher
realms. It often tells that old forms of destruction
which we inflice on ourselves are at an end a new
infusion of spirituality is born.
Those who really desire the Higher Planes must
experience death and attachment to the things of the
earth. Most people fear that the dearth card means
someone is going to physically die. I have never had
that in a reading but my instruction was that physical
death in a reading would be the Nine, Ten, and Death
card all touching. So we welcome the Death card as the
card of transformation and a giant step along the path
of life.
janice cottrill (jjaniceneon@aol.com)
DNA! - Each strand of DNA is unzipped by death so that
it can recombine in the egg and the sperm. Death
creates anew. Pretty obvious really, and quite
interesting as it was painted before the double helix
was elucidated.
adam (silas_eyebean@hotmail.com)
This card is about the circle of life. Everything in
life dies and is born. Death and Rebirth, cycles. This
card does represent the end of something, but with that
begins another. I suppose it depends on the situation
for each person. It is all in how you look at the world
and how you look at life. If you are negative this card
can have negative conentations...if you are possative
the same.
Taylore (olivepimento@yahoo.com)
Death,,the first card i dreamt about,,laying on the
floor, i saw wild dogs coming to eat me,,i felt them
biting and chewing my ears and cheeks,,then i raised my
right hand knowing that death was coming to take me ,
he was flying towards me , dressed in pale grayish
blue. he took my hand,surprisingly,his hand felt warm
and fleshy,, took my hand and lead me, first we went
pass a luminous ladder leading downwards, then on the
left was a second ladder, totaly dark and he lead me in
and sat at the entrance.Well the rest of the dream only
counts for me and i wont explain..
But as far as i could understand,, death has a meaning
for each person,,i thought i was going to feel an icy
cold hand instead of a warm one,, i could also see that
there is a physical death and a spiritual death,, and
that one doesn't imply the other,death is change
..change in jewish is jave,, jave is a way to name god
,,it means the one who is always changing,,or the one
whos always dying??
carla smith (smithcarlaliliana@hotmail.com)
"Men fear death, as if unquestionalbly the greatest
evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the
greatest good."
-William Mitford
Lisa Lovejoy (kaira@neteze.com)
For starters this card doesnt refer to physical
death. Its external meaning refers to the end of
something: whether it be a relationship, job,..etc.
(it is dramatic,swift and abrupt end). Internally,
it refers to the different levels of death experienced
by the mind. The highest form coming in the
shape of a complete shcizophrenic crackup, (the
shamans experience) here the individual is opened up
up to the experience of the larger forces of the
mind.(very dangerous)
I dreamt last night that a skeleton walked into
the room I was in and asked:
"Are you ready to die" so i am preparing for it.
"Should be interesting."
Aleister (kad@telerama.com)
Death represents a balance to the universe. All things
must be in balance or the unverse would be chaos.
Death is the counterweight to life.
Sheila Holloway
One way to think of this card is as the Reaper routine in Tom Ray's "Tierra" artificial-life simulation. Roughly, the Reaper clears out the old matter so that evolution can take place.
If you see the Trumps in order as representing the
cycle of initiation, then it's of some importance
that Death follows the Hanged Man. As Gautama
Buddha discovered, sometimes it is the process of
sacrifice that needs to be cleared out of one's
mind! Death can represent the clearing-out of
old Osirian/Piscean sacrificial concepts of
Illumination in favor of something else --- but,
remember, the "something else" is not defined in
Death.
Frater K
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is just a
dream.
Hilmar (hihodgja@sp.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE)
Death is an entrance aka a portal to the next level
once someone dies they release enough DMT so their
brain can achieve communication with the superior
entities in the next dimension aka once able to be
their metaphysically with the natur(BODY)they are
allowed entrance to the hall of tests. If you can
pass,the being THOTH will grant passage to the after
life:)
So death is actually new life for the one that KNOW and
are ready for the tests. HINT faith is not
required,only in your ability;)
THomasOTH (spdracer@gate.net)
Life and experience bring about pattern and
consistency. We do this
because it is useful and one of the few ways that we
may extract
meaning from the chaos. After an unspecified period of
time, the
pattern, the ties to the environment, may bring about
more restriction
than utility. Death makes it his duty to sheer off
these ties when
they reach the point of stagnation. He frees the
Hanged Man from his
suspension over the abyss, wherein he plummets. The
event is usually
catastrophic, given the radical change from suspension
to free-fall,
but it serves to loose him who is bound, thereby once
again creating
the possibility of change.
Clay Fouts (cfouts@vortexworks.com)
Death represents natural change. Evolution from
one state to another. A counterpart to the divisive
and conflict-ridden change of The Tower, Death can
be seen as the shedding of one of the layers of hubris
and ego in the Magus.
Leo (essexpagan@hotmail.com)
Samadhi. This card represents the obliveration
of the ego. The Pheonix myth applies here, as
something more glorious and beautiful rises out
of the ashes of the old.
Gerald del Campo (solis@hevanet.com)
Unlike the Hanged Man, this is transformation
without control. Rebirth.
Doing away with the past...move to a new
beginning. Changes cannot be controlled.
Expanded consciousness.
Let go and move on. No debating.
Never means physical death.
Alison (alisond@anv.net)
Something or some part of your existence is over. Change is eminent. This may be a good thing.
Life is change. For life to continue, there must be change.
Connie MacAlpin (khasmyr@pacbell.net)