Tarot's Death card can be frightening to the Tarot novice. Remember that Tarot speaks to our intuition using symbology therefore this card is not in the deck to predict a coming death. The Death card symbolises the closing of one cycle, or phase, of life and the beginning of another.

Tarot tells a story and Death is much like a full stop at the end of a sentence.

Our lives have seasons and cycles like a year has spring, summer etc. The end of one cycle leads into the next new cycle. Time to look forward and not back.

Numerology: Death has the number 13 in the major arcana. A number considered unlucky in Western cultures this number, in numerology, reduces to the number 4 (1+3) which is considered unlucky in East Asian cultures. The word for 4 and the word for death are almost the same in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and parts of China. The fear of the number 4 is known as Tetraphobia.

Other online descriptions of Death:

Wikipedia - Death

Aeclectic Tarot - Death

Biddy Tarot - Death

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