Water · Scorpio
Death
Card XIII — the death of the old self. After the Hanged Man's surrender, something actually dies. Not the Fool — but the version of the Fool that existed before. Transformation requires loss.
A skeletal figure in black armor rides a white horse through a field where a king has fallen, a child stares, and a bishop pleads. The sun sets — or rises — between two towers on the horizon. Death is the most misunderstood card in the deck. It almost never refers to physical death. It refers to the end of something that has run its course — and the stubborn, necessary truth that nothing new can grow in ground that hasn't been cleared.
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