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Deathfor Scorpio
"It's not over. It's composting."
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Don't fear the death card, a skull knight rides a white horse across a battlefield. The card seems grim, but the death card means a new beginning as much as it means something coming to end. Think persephone and hades more than the grim reaper. Or the death of winter leading to spring.
You are facing an ending or a big transition. Will it be a phoenix rising from the ashes or the start of something new. Some trees only grow in the wake of a forest fire. Accept this part of the process of life and let the loss wash over you. This part of the cycle has ended, but a new one always begins
You are energetically blocked by something from your past. Holding onto it is causing you more pain than you know. Everyone fears loss, but, alas, we cannot go through life without it. Feel the grief flow through you, but don't let it trap you in a place you don't belong
Its place in the deck.
Where it shows up.
Death for Scorpio
The Transformer
Scorpio is a Water fixed sign ruled by Mars, whose natural subject is shared resources, other people's money, death, sex, what is hidden. Pluto rules Scorpio, so this card is not describing an outside force. It is describing Scorpio to itself, which is why there is no distance in it. Scorpio is fixed: it holds on, and this card sits in the sustained middle, which is the one stretch fixed signs are actually built for. Upright, this has turned inward, to the place where the outer tools stop working.
Keep the thread
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