Artemis

Major Arcana · 13

Deathfor Virgo

Death tarot card

"It's not over. It's composting."

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On the card

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.

Upright
TransformationEndingsNew BeginningsRelease

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

Reversed

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.

Major ArcanaCard 13
One of the 22 Major Arcana. They point to the large themes and turning points in a life, not the day to day. When one comes up, the reading is about something bigger than this week.
StageThe turn inward
After the Fool, the Major Arcana run in three stages of seven: the outer world (1 to 7), the turn inward (8 to 14) and the return (15 to 21). This one is in the turn inward: the point where the tools that worked outside stop working.

Where it shows up.

In the stars
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PlutoThis card's planet
Deep transformation — what has to end so something else can start.
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Death for Virgo

The Analyst

Virgo is an Earth mutable sign ruled by Mercury, whose natural subject is work, routine, health, service, the daily how. Pluto works on a longer clock than Mercury-ruled Virgo is used to. Whatever this is, it will not resolve on Virgo's preferred timeline. Virgo is mutable: it adapts, and this card is in the middle, where adapting can quietly become avoiding. Upright, this has turned inward, to the place where the outer tools stop working.

Where is this showing up for you?

WorkRelationshipSelfHealthWealthMy Future

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