A Companion Guide to the Death Tarot
by Richard Harris
The Death-themed Major Arcana Tarot can be both visually compelling and psychologically profound. Death in the symbolic sense speaks not only of endings, but of transitions, thresholds, transformation, release, and rebirth. Woven into each of the 22 cards of the Major Arcana Death is not merely one card—it is the lens through which all are viewed.
Each card reveals a face of Death—as change, decay, release, memory, legacy, rebirth, time, sacrifice, silence, shadow, and so forth. This deck could have a dark, poetic, dreamlike visual language—rooted in myth, ritual, and natural cycles.
These images of the major arcana provide both visually. stimulating interactions, but also a brief written description of each card and keywords upon which to meditate.
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations," 12.1.2
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