Major Arcana - Death

Next up is Death, the Fool becomes Aware of his mortality and the need to constantly Change in order to Grow. The spread out limbs on the field represent transience, and the scythe is an instrument of Change. The Connection between Heaven and earth is Death, and as such something must always Die in order to give Birth to something else. Regardless of status we are all subject to Change. To time marching ever on. Transformation is at the Heart of understanding Death, we're all just a Vessel for what's most important, The Soul.

The Fool must learn that the purifying experience of death, not necessarily physical, but that of change alters situations. As one situation dies it lays the foundation for a new one. The old acts as fertiliser to the New and help you Grow. The Fool needs to believe in the fact that the trick to getting over your losses lies in seeing New Opportunities and Possibilities. Change or Death can be unsettling but it also gives you a thrilling sense of Freedom...

In the Kabbalah the number 13 symbolises the end of something old and the beginning of something new. It's connected to love and unity, the never ending need for balance, death and life etc. A powerful symbol of change and a need for caution.

Death will help you realise that there's a need to release the old in order to gain something new. Death occurs in the macrocosm as well as in the microcosm every day, even your cells go through a continuous cycle of death and rebirth. Death or Change is indeed inevitable, the only thing that's permanent is Impermanence...