Death

 
Death
http://bln.gs/b/1shbf4 DEATH Basic Card Symbols Skeletal Death, black robes or armor, sometimes with a scythe or a flag featuring a white rose on a black field. There is often a rising sun. Sometimes there are other figures, the most common being a child. Basic Tarot Story Having left the tree from where she hung, the Fool moves carefully through a fallow field, head still clearing from visions. The air is cold and wintry, the trees bare. She knows she has started on her spiritual journey in earnest, but feels strangely empty and profoundly sad, as if she has lost something. Before her she sees, rising with the sun, a skeleton in black armor mounted on a white horse. She recognizes it as Death. As it stops before her, she humbly asks, "Have I died?" And the Skeleton answers, "Yes, in a way. You sacrificed your old world, your old self. Both are gone, dead." The Fool cannot keep from weeping. "Forgive me," she says, embarrassed by her tears. "There is nothing to forgive," Death replies. "Mourning is natural and you must deal with your loss before you can accept anything new. Keep in mind, however, that old leaves must wither and fly away from a tree's branches, leaving them bare, before new green leaves can appear." As Death rides away, the Fool sees the truth in those words. She, too, feels like a skeleton, all that she was stripped away. This, she understands, is how all great transformations start, by removing everything down to bare bone or soil so that something new has room to grow. Basic Tarot Meaning Perhaps the most common question asked about Tarot Cards is, "Can the Death card mean a real death?" Yes, it can. The Death card is about endings, and that includes the ending of a life. What everyone seems to forget, however, is that the Death card is not exclusively about the end of a human life. In fact, it's far more likely that the card is telling you that a goldfish or a houseplant will die. Death can mean the "end" of anything: The end of an era, http://bln.gs/b/26l9q5 the end of a trip, the closing of a restaurant, the breaking up of a band, the conclusion of a very rough week. Any and all of these as well as a million more possible interpretations can be applied to the Death card. So it is foolish to fear it for the fact that, once in a great while, it will let you know that some sick, elderly relative might not be long for this world. Even more important to remember: the Death card is less about something dying then about how a person deals with endings. We might be delighted that something is finally over and done with, like a terrible job we hated. Or we might be heartbroken, like over the loss of that poor goldfish. Either way, we require time to come to terms with the fact that something we were used to is no longer a part of our lives. With Scorpio as its sign, the Death card is as much about transformation as about loss. Scorpio has three forms: scorpion, serpent, eagle. The Death card indicates this transition from lower to higher to highest. In addition, Scorpio is also about sex. So even as something is taken from us, something new is created. That new thing will not be the same as what was lost, but it will step into that empty space and give us reason to carry on. Thirteen's Observations on the Death Card The connection of sex and death in Scorpio (the sign stands for both) is a strong indication of what this card is all about. We westerners see "Death" as a frightening card because we often see Death as an end, and we hate for things to come to an end. However, in other traditions, Death is just a natural and important, if sad part of an on-going cycle. In a karmic sense, you die so that you may be reborn. Winter comes so that there can be a spring, and we can only appreciate what we have when we know that there is loss. The Death card signals such things. This is a time of change. Before or even as this change occurs, however, the querent needs to mourn, cry, and grieve. Wang notes that Death "humbles" all. Which means that we are brought low, feel empty or stripped to the bone. Once we have gone through this low point, however, we will find that there is room for something new, fresh or different to come into our lives. Something that might exult or transform us. So while a Tarot Reader needs to tell their querent, quite honestly, that they will be going through a time of sorrow and mourning, we can also tell them that this, too, is not forever. Our sadness will end in a sunrise, in a newborn phoenix rising from the ashes of the old. (Fleetwood Mac Dreams: http://youtu.be/mrZRURcb1cM)
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BanDirectEner... says:

3964 days ago
Thank you. Its a fantasy that I wouldn't want to come true. But, the ashes aren't mine at all. They are the ashes of a woman who helped torture me in my home, Sheila Sullivan. "death" and twin girls and all....and she dies and goes to hell with her twin sister who I wished death on as a teen who is now dead. And life goes on. Its just a fairy tale. I made a tale of Queen/Swords who has green eyes. She's an evil mom. I didn't really accept the truth until 2012 about Sheila Sullivan
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BanDirectEner... says:

3964 days ago
The last Mother's Day gift I bought Sheila was in 2011 and I have journal entries of her saying & doing sick shit to me in 2008 2009, 2010 and 2011. She played psychological mind games like she was aware of my nightmares, had the power to influence them (what if I snapped and killed her in ignorance?) Right now, I'm playing with the 'witch' name calling, the fact that my twin had a girl and I used cards and made pictures of 'The Sun' and its just playing :) Sheila is sicker than I could imagine
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69love69love says:

3964 days ago
very interesting to read.

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