Death — meaning, upright and reversed | Tarot

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Death

Major Arcana · Scorpio

Upright

ending, transformation, clearing out

Almost never literal. Something is over, and holding the corpse upright costs more than letting it fall. The clearing is what makes the next thing possible — this card is a door, not a wall.

Reversed

resistance to change, stagnation, dragged-out ending

The ending is being refused. The thing is already dead and is being kept on life support, which is why nothing new can start.

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Traditional Rider-Waite-Smith meanings, written down once and read back the same way every time. No AI, no account, nothing generated — so the Tower means on Tuesday what it meant in 1909. Correspondences are the Golden Dawn attributions.
For entertainment and reflection. Not advice — medical, legal, financial or otherwise.
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