 The basic symbols of this card are Skeletal Death in black robes or armor. There may be a scythe or a flag featuring a five petaled rose. There may be other figures in the field; the most common and recurring being that of a child. This card is about transformation, passage, and change. The Death card symbolizes transformation, making way for the new, loss, failure, illness or death, and bad luck; and in reverse stands for immobility, slow changes, a narrow escape, and cheating death.
As the story progresses, the Fool after leaving the tree from which he hung, passes through a field, still clearing his thoughts. He sees a rising sun, and a skeleton in black armor on a white horse. He recognizes Death and asks if he had died. The skeleton answers that in a way he had died, as he had sacrificed his old world and his old self. He had been reborn, as symbolized by the rising sun, and that it was the time of great transformation.
The Fool feels this to be true, and understands all great transformations occur by building afresh on bare foundations.
For the Querent, the card means a transition from the lower to the higher and to the highest. |
Tarot readings using tarot cards is a tool used by people to help get answers or advice in the form of divination by tarot cards. There are 78 cards in a Tarot deck. These 78 cards are divided into two parts - the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana. Each card represents a different meaning. The Major Arcana cards relate to the journey of life and life lessons, while the Minor Arcana are representative of daily life and relate to the cards of an ordinary playing card deck. The Tarot is often used in psychic readings as a tool for getting clarification.
There are many therapeutic uses of Tarot, especially by using of its images. Many people are turning proactive and are considering ways to incorporate Tarot into some fitness program or the other. Today, there are two distinct Tarot schools of thought – the divinatory, and the therapeutical. Where the divinatory Tarot is used to foretell the future – so to say, the therapeutic Tarot helps reveal and explain the psychological blocks, emotional blocks, fears, and behavior patterns. The behavior patterns impede an individual’s full realization, and the therapeutic Tarot offers guidance to resolve this and other factors. 