Death Tarot Card Meaning and Art Alleged Tarot Deck
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About the Deck
Alleged Tarot Deck
A modern digital cartoon deck featuring traditional symbolism in a whimsical stick-figure style.
Provenance
Damian Cugley. Web, 2002. Used with permission of the artist.
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Meaning of Death from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Upright
change, ending, new life
Reversed
traumatic change, delayed change
According to Many Schools of Thought
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Death. The method of presentation is almost invariable, and embodies a bourgeois form of symbolism. The scene is the field of life, and amidst ordinary rank vegetation there are living arms and heads protruding from the ground. One of the heads is crowned, and a skeleton with a great scythe is in the act of mowing it. The transparent and unescapable meaning is death, but the alternatives allocated to the symbol are change and transformation. Other heads have been swept from their place previously, but it is, in its current and patent meaning, more especially a card of the death of Kings. In the exotic sense it has been said to signify the ascent of the spirit in the divine spheres, creation and destruction, perpetual movement, and so forth.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Death, Change, Transformation, Alteration for the worse
Reversed
Death just escaped, Partial change, Alteration for the better.
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Death.
