10 points for the first one to give me the whole meaning of the Death Tarot Card as presented in my avatar?

Answer 1

Dramatic change that causes a complete re-evaluation of one's direction in life or one's viewpoint in life. The 'death' of the old self and the 'birth' of the new. It is the yin and yang of life and death -- every birth is a death, every death is a birth. Every completed journey is the beginning of another.

Answer 2

DEATH
Basic Card Symbols

Skeletal Death, black robes or armor, sometimes with a scythe or a flag featuring a white rose on a desolate black field. There is often a rising sun. Sometimes there are other figures in the field. The most common, reoccurring figure on Death cards is a child.

Basic Tarot Story

Having left the tree from where he hung, the Fool moves carefully through an fallow field, head still clearing from visions. The air is cold and wintery, the trees bare. Before him, he sees, rising with the sun, a skeleton in black armor mounted on a white horse. He recognizes it as Death. As it stops before him, he humbly asks, "Have I died?" He feels, in fact, rather empty and desolate. And the Skeleton answers, "Yes, in a way. You sacrificed your old world, your old self. Both are gone, dead." The Fool reflects on that, "How sad." Death acknowledges this with a nod. "Yes, but it is the only way to be reborn. A new Sun is rising, and it is, for you, a time of great transformation." As Death rides away, the Fool can feel the truth in those words. He, too, feels like a skeleton, all that he was stripped away. This, he understands, is how all great transformations start, by stripping things to the bone, and building fresh upon the bare foundations.

Basic Tarot Meaning

Yes, the Death card can signal a death in the right circumstances (a question about a very sick or old relative, for example), but unlike its dramatic presentation in the movies, the Death card is far more likely to signal transformation, passage, change. Scorpio, the sign of this card, has three forms: scorpion, serpent, eagle. The Death card indicates this transition from lower to higher to highest. This is a card of humility, and it may indicate the Querent as being brought low, but only so that they can then go higher than they ever have before. Wang notes that Death "humbles" all, but it also "exults." Always keep in mind that on this card of darkness there is featured a sunrise as well .

Thirteen's Observations

The connection of sex and death in Scorpio (the sign stands for both) is a strong indication of what this card is all about. We westerners see "Death" as a frightening card because we often see Death as an end, and we hate for things to come to an end. However, in other traditions, Death is just a natural and important, if sad part of an on-going cycle. In a karmic sense, you die so that you may be reborn. Winter comes so that there can be a spring, and we can only appreciate what we have when we know that there is loss. The Death card signals such things. This is a time of change. Time for something to end; but time also for something new to begin. The Querent may honestly be told that they may feel sad or empty, low, but that this will give him a way to rise again, like a phoenix from the ashes. Death is not the end. It is only the precursor to resurrection.

Answer 3

Death card can signal a death in the right circumstances (a question about a very sick or old relative, for example), but unlike its dramatic presentation in the movies, the Death card is far more likely to signal transformation, passage, change. Scorpio, the sign of this card, has three forms: scorpion, serpent, eagle. The Death card indicates this transition from lower to higher to highest. This is a card of humility, and it may indicate the Querent as being brought low, but only so that they can then go higher than they ever have before. Wang notes that Death "humbles" all, but it also "exults." Always keep in mind that on this card of darkness there is featured a sunrise as well .

Thirteen's Observations

The connection of sex and death in Scorpio (the sign stands for both) is a strong indication of what this card is all about. We westerners see "Death" as a frightening card because we often see Death as an end, and we hate for things to come to an end. However, in other traditions, Death is just a natural and important, if sad part of an on-going cycle. In a karmic sense, you die so that you may be reborn. Winter comes so that there can be a spring, and we can only appreciate what we have when we know that there is loss. The Death card signals such things. This is a time of change. Time for something to end; but time also for something new to begin. The Querent may honestly be told that they may feel sad or empty, low, but that this will give him a way to rise again, like a phoenix from the ashes. Death is not the end. It is only the precursor to resurrection.

Answer 4

When I read the cards I always interpret the Death card as an ending of the current situation and also, when there is an ending, a new beginning is coming along. A transformation is taking place. It is a change that will not be denied.

The last time I saw the Death card in my readings was a year ago around the time of Katrina, which did change everything in my area.

Answer 5

Death (XIII) is a Major Arcana Tarot card.

Some frequent keywords are:

1. Ending of a cycle ----- Loss ----- Conclusion ----- Sadness
2. Transition into a new state ----- Psychological transformation
3. Finishing up ----- Regeneration ----- Elimination of old patterns
4. Being caught in the inescapable ----- Good-byes ----- Deep change

A picture of a skeleton riding a horse. Surrounding it are the dead and dying from all classes--kings, bishops, and common people. In its hand it carries a black standard with a white flower on it. In some decks, the Crashing Towers from The Moon (Tarot card) appears in the background with The Sun (Tarot card) setting behind it.

It is unlikely that this card actaully represents a physical death, usually it inclines toward an end of something; possibly a relationship, interest or otherwise.

Some people say that death is the gardener of life.

Others say that Death is the gateway to infinity. Once we have passed through that door, we rejoin the carbon cycle.

Others say that Death is change. The sacrifice of virtue or vice, a loved one or a loathed one, demanded by Time.

Joan Bunning, author of Learning the Tarot, says "It is a truism in tarot work that Card 13 rarely has anything to do with physical death. A responsible card reader never interprets Card 13 in this way because this view is too limiting. Death is not something that happens once to our bodies. It happens continually, at many levels and not just in the physical. Each moment we die to the present so the future can unfold."

Death and Time are closely linked. Both are often shown carrying a scythe, both are often called the Reaper. The one who takes in the harvest. Death is the price one pays to exist in time.

Death follows the Hanged Man. It is the threshold the Hanged Man must pass before he or she can journey through the Underworld, and be reborn.

Death is associated through its cross-sum (the sum of the digits) with Key 4: The Emperor. This takes us back to Sir Fraizer’s story of The King of the Golden Bough. This was a priest of Zeus (the Ur-avatar of The Emperor) who got his position by killing his predecessor, then spent the rest of his term patrolling a grove with a naked sword. The Emperor takes power through death; wields power through death; is brought to power through death. The law tells us that power to take life is an inherent attribute of sovereignty. Contrast with The Empress, whose power is predicated on life, life, life.

The Emperor builds, structures, the ego, power. Death takes them all down. Ebb and flow.

In addition to The Emperor, Death is associated with The Queens, the 13th card of each suit. The body of the Queen is the way power defeats death; through the children she bears or the legitimacy she brings to the Emperor’s claim. But every queen is a handmaiden of death.

Death is a thief. He does not respect our property rules.

Persephone, the Daughter of the Earth Goddess Demeter, is the Queen of the Dead. Hades, the Lord of the Dead, stole her from her mother and made her his bride. Life beat back death; Demeter got her back – but only for part of every year. Every Spring Equinox, she is reborn; every Fall Equinox, she goes back into the earth. Life and death, dancing together, through her passage through time.

Osiris is also a Lord of the Dead.

The Sun and the Moon are implicit in this card. The Crashing Towers from the The Moon (Tarot card) frames a setting (some say rising) Sun. Death wears black and silver, colors associated with the moon, and rides a pale horse, just like The Sun, six cards later. Death walks the threshold between light and dark, night and day.

When Death appears in a spread, its may speak of the transformation of passing through the gateway of death, hopefully metaphorically, it may speak of the stillness of the grave, hopefully, metaphorically. It also can be a warning that time is short; measure our use of the tiny morsel we are given against the infinity we are not.

Death may also serve as an example of power manifesting itself over our poor attempts to control it. Forms become exhausted, the center cannot hold, cells forget how to be what they were. Sometimes, change can delay the inevitable.

Answer 6

The Death Card in the Tarot deck signifies change, not actual corporeal death. The change will be significant in some way, and will radically alter the world of the asker.

Answer 7

If I were to believe in this, I would say that it means an end to your old life, and a new beginning.
It would symbolize your need for material things to be gone, and your life, and soul moving onward to a fuller destination.
Upside right would be a positive change, while upside down would mean bad news.
Old things die away, and new things are reborn.
Welcome to the new world of enlightenment.

If I were to believe in these things.

Answer 8

Transformation

Answer 9

Death means change. Therefore it means you are going through a change or are going to cause change.

Answer 10

The full meaning? All of it?

Well, okaaaay...

it's a card. With a skeleton on it.