My tarot card had a upside down death card, what does this mean?

Answer 1

Major arcana cards usually indicate that this is a significant moment/issue at hand.

In my experiences when a card is reversed, the process of the UPright meaning is being drawn out, delayed, and not flowing easily.

Seeing others have posted various meanings of the Death card, my question is -- what are you afraid of letting go of which needs to depart so you can be free and move into your new life?

Pehaps changing a thought attached to a material thing can bring the freedom of death/rebirth.

Happy rebirth day...

Maluhia - Peace

Answer 2

I'm not well versed in the tarot, but it is full of symbolism.

Death may represent a symbolic death. A death of an old way of thinking, death of a realationship or valued friendship, etc.

And remember, on the heels of death, follows birth.

Answer 3

Some frequent keywords used by tarot readers are:
• Ending of a cycle ----- Loss ----- Conclusion ----- Sadness
• Transition into a new state ----- Psychological transformation
• Finishing up ----- Regeneration ----- Elimination of old patterns
• Being caught in the inescapable ----- Good-byes ----- Deep change


Death Card Divinatory meaning

Upright - The beginning of a new life. As a result of underlying circumstances transformation and change. Major changes. The end of a phase in life which has served its purpose. Abrupt and complete change of circumstances, way of life and patterns of behaviour due to past events and actions. Alterations.


Reversed - Change that is both painful and unpleasant. A refusal to face the fear of change or change itself. Agonizing periods of transition. Inertia. Lethargy. Mental, physical or emotional exhaustion.


Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 4

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



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 (XIII) from the Tarot of MarseillesDeath 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.

xoxoxoxoxo

~sweetHeart kisses~

Answer 5

It means Death is doing a headstand, which he actually enjoys doing on occasion. (Death is a kid at heart - that's why so many parents say their kids will be the death of them.)

Answer 6

It means someone near you is going to die in an upside down plane crash when they have a hairy crack-up