Why the Death Card Shouldn’t Scare You if It Shows up in Your Tarot Reading
Endings are only natural in order to start new beginnings
Life is an endless wheel in motion like the Wheel of Fortune Tarot Card. Today I’m also reflecting on the scary-looking Death card while the Taurus Sun makes an easy trine connection to Pluto in Capricorn for beneficial alterations. Similar to the Death card, in Astrology the planet Pluto represents death, transformation, and rebirth.
When days and life become complacent, or your future potential is blocked by stagnation, the Death card can be your friend ushering in new beginnings. Change is not always easy for some people but really changes are totally necessary in order to evolve, grow, and reach our full human potential. (p.s. Folks with fixed signs typically don’t like change so can take longer to adapt to new methods and environments.)
You can consider this card a sacred rite of passage as you move from one phase of life to another. In the above-pictured card from the Rider-Waite Tarot deck drawn in 1909 by artist Pamela Colman Smith, we see a priest of sorts (perhaps the Hierophant) giving prayers of blessings as guidance through a conflicted transition.
The people falling around the Grim Reaper who sits calmly yet strongly upright on a…
