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DEATH IS SCARY – OR NOT?<\/span><\/h3>

Death scares most people.\u00a0Likewise, the DEATH Trump sends shivers through the spine of many card readers and their clients. After all, Death is the final frontier<\/a>, isn\u2019t it? It\u2019s that the ultimate unknown.\u00a0 Thus it is only natural that we should be weary of the Tarot Death card, right?<\/p>

Nope! Not me! As a matter of fact, DEATH is my favorite card in the deck. I will explain.<\/p>

BIRTH<\/span><\/h3>

Have you ever wondered why there is no \u2018Birth<\/a>\u2019 card in the tarot deck or no \u2018Birth\u2019 path on the Tree of Life? The reason it does not exist is because Death and Birth are one and the same.\u00a0 The second we die, we are transformed into pure spirit.\u00a0 The moment of our birth is when we return into the material world.\u00a0 And so it goes \u2013 over and over again.<\/a> Think about the Ouroboro<\/a>s: the serpent with its tail in its mouth.\u00a0 You don\u2019t know where it begins or ends.\u00a0 If you spin it, you wil interchangeably see the moutn and the tail \u2013 over and over and over.\u00a0 That\u2019s the whole point of the Ouroboros: cyclical nature of thing.\u00a0 It tells us that every end is a beginning and every beginning is and end of something else.<\/p>

And so it is in the DEATH card.\u00a0 Simply put, Death brings on a change \u2013 a new beginning \u2013 a new birth.\u00a0 But there is a lot more to the card than just that simple explanation.<\/p>

FISH<\/span><\/h3>

The Hebrew letter of the DEATH card is Nun, which means fish.\u00a0 How tellingly then that Carl Jung described the alchemical meaning of fish as a \u2018Cinedian\u2019 fish.\u00a0 Cinedian comes from a Greek word \u2018kineo\u2019, which means to set in motion.\u00a0 Thus a death sets in motion a beginning of a new cycle; rebirth.<\/p>

On the Tree of Life, the Path of Death leads us from Netzach (Victory) to Tipheret (Beauty). It is a Path of personal evolution; the Path on which the energy of the ego (Personality) goes through a physical death to reconceptualize in initiation of the Higher Self.\u00a0 Here we have a change of perception<\/a> about nature of reality and the understanding of what constitutes Death.\u00a0 It is our will<\/a> to live, our very desire to continue the function of our Personality in the corporeal state that is abolished on the Path of DEATH. And yes, to achieve that, we sacrifice our physical being.\u00a0 It is a scary endeavor. In the words of Carl Jung<\/a> \u201cby descending into the unconscious, the conscious mind puts itself in a perilous condition, for it is apparently extinguishing itself.\u201d<\/a><\/p>

TRANSFORMATION<\/span><\/h3>

In the Death card, we realize that both death and birth are, essentially the same. As we are born into the world of matter, we die in the world of Spirit; and as we die in the material world, we are born back into the Spirit world.\u00a0 And so it goes.<\/p>

SCORPIO<\/span><\/h3>

The Zodiac sign that rules DEATH is Scorpio.\u00a0 In this card, Scorpio is represented by its three symbols: Scorpion, Serpent and Eagle.\u00a0It is a representation of the transition on the Path of Death from a dangerous, poisonous, primitive crowling creature, into the serpent that intertwines its way up (into the Light) to become an Eagle \u2013 a free creature that soars high above us.<\/p>

Also, in this card, we see a soul at the moment of crossing over \u2013 as it presents itself to Azrael (the angel of Death) \u2013 the same hermaphrodite angel that will appear in the Temperance and Devil Cards. It is the FOOL himself that is presented here \u2013 but at this stage, he is a FOOL no more.\u00a0 He is standing in front of a light tunnel awaiting his life review.<\/p>

CHANGES<\/span><\/h3>

In simplest of terms, the Death trump represents changes.\u00a0 But, unlike the TOWER card, which promises an unwanted and immediate destruction, the changes of DEATH are welcomed and coveted.<\/p>

In a Tarot Reading<\/a>, DEATH can represent one or more of the following:<\/span><\/p>