Scary Tarot
Scary Tarot: The Card That Ends, and Begins Again
The Death card tells us it’s time for transformation
The sun sets betwixt two ivory towers as a king lies, dead, at the feet of a pure-white horse. Women and children — mourners, perhaps — plead with the shadowed, bony figure astride the snorting steed: Death has come to town.
The Major Arcana are set apart from the rest of the Tarot deck for the archetypical lessons they present to us. When any of these cards appear in a spread, they come to us heady with importance. With them, we take immediate and careful heed. While other cards are numbered, or marked as members of a court, the Major Arcana are gifted, lofty titles.
Justice, Judgement, Wheel of Fortune. Fool and Magician and Hierophant.
The name of each card conjures our very first interpretation, providing a lightning-quick glimpse into whatever meaning we might find in them that day. Curious, then, that the 13th card of the Major Arcana was historically left nameless.
Although death and decay are the binary balance to life and birth, we embrace only one side of its coin, assuming some kind of immortality based firmly in denial.
