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Card Number: 13
Card Name: Death
Core Attributes
- ✨Astrological Correspondence:✨♏ Scorpio
- ✨Element:✨💧 Water
- ✨Direction:✨🧭 West
- ✨Numerology:✨4️⃣ 4
- ✨Archetype:✨🎭 The Releaser, who ushers in endings to pave the way for fresh starts.
- ✨Energy:✨⚡ Death embodies the energy of transformation, closure, and renewal, encouraging us to embrace change rather than fear it.
- ✨Keywords:✨🗝
- Upright Keywords for Death:
- Letting go
- Surrender
- New perspective
- Sacrifice
- Patience
- Pause
- Release
- Reflection
- Stillness
- Insight
- Acceptance
- Spiritual growth
- Shifting viewpoints
- Seeing things differently
- Delay (for a greater purpose)
- Reversed Keywords for Death:
- Resistance to change
- Stagnation
- Unwillingness to sacrifice
- Apathy
- Inaction
- Lack of perspective
- Self-imposed restrictions
- Impatience
- Feeling stuck
- Unfinished business
- Denial
- Avoiding letting go
- Frustration with delays
- ✨Basic Meaning:✨📖 In the upright position, Death symbolizes transformation, endings, and the necessary release of what no longer serves you. It represents profound change, rebirth, and the clearing of old patterns to make way for new growth. In the reversed position, Death can indicate resistance to change, fear of letting go, or stagnation, often leading to prolonged difficulty or missed opportunities. It may signal the need to confront endings with acceptance in order to embrace renewal and personal evolution.
Symbols & Associations
- ✨Gemstones:✨💎 Snakestone, Bloodstone, Onyx, Obsidian, Amethyst
- ✨Herbs:✨🌿 Cactus, Elder Flowers, Marigold, Mugwort
- ✨Runes:✨ᚠ Ansuz, Eihwaz
- ✨Trees:✨🌳 Ash, Yew, Aspen, Myrtle
- ✨Chakras:✨🌀 Throat Chakra, Root Chakra, Sacral Chakra
Cultural and Mythological Links
- ✨Deities:✨👑 Odin, Persephone, Inanna, Ereshkigal, Isis, Nephthys, Izanami, Hel, Freya, Hades, Seth, Anubis, Osiris, Manannan Mac Lir, Thanatos, The Morrigan, Morana
- ✨Sabbats:✨🎃 Samhain
- ✨Archangels:✨👼 Azrael, Camael
- ✨Native American Totem Animals:✨🦉 Butterfly, Horse, Panther, Snake, Vulture
- ✨Misc. Animals and Creatures:✨🧚♀️ Phoenix
- ✨I-Ching:✨📜 59 Huan – Dispersion / Dissolution
- ✨Tree of Life:✨🌲 Tiphareth ↔ Netzach
Additional Details
✨Timing (When it should come about):✨⏳ October 23–November 21
✨Season:✨🍂 Autumn
✨Month:✨📅November
✨Day of the Week:✨🗓 Saturday
✨Time of the Day:✨🌞 Dusk
✨Yes/No Answer:✨✅❌ No
✨Count:✨#️⃣ 12
✨Color:✨🎨 Dark Blue, Black, White, Red
✨Aura:✨🌈 Black, Purple, Deep Red
✨Moon Phase:✨🌙Waning Crescent Moon
✨Weather:✨⛅ Stormy, Overcast, Windy
✨Metal:✨⚙️Lead, Obsidian (Volcanic Glass)
✨Scents:✨🌸 Patchouli, Cedar, Myrrh
✨Chocolate:✨🍫Dark Chocolate with Sea Salt
✨Candle Type:✨🕯️Beeswax Candle
✨Common Associations:✨🔗 Cleansing, Dispelling Negativity, Healing, Funerals and Mourning, Intuition & Divination, Sleep, Wisdom/Studying
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