Death (tarot)

Death is one of the also major arcana -called trump cards of the Tarot .

presentation

A skeleton sits on a white horse, various people kneel in front of it, body parts of the dead lie on the floor.

interpretation

It symbolically / archetypically stands for a change, farewell or an end, but not necessarily death. The card does not necessarily have to mean something negative (end of unpleasant life situations; each end usually implies a new beginning as a logical consequence). The card signifies an abrupt change, a voluntary or involuntary end, becoming and passing or physical death, in any case an inevitable and final event (Scott Hollander, p. 89).

Equivalents

• the zodiac sign Scorpio
• the Hebrew letter נ( Well )

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