The death card is the thirteenth card of the Major Arcana. This picture was taken in the winter in Santa Fe at twilight in the back of my friends house. It shows a naked tree in a landscape where the sun is already beyond the horizon. The combination of winter and the sun being set reminds me of a beautiful passing. I prefer the symbol of the tree skeleton, dead in the winter, to a human skeleton for this image has been depicted so much.
In a reading the symbol of death is more about the death of old patterns in order to give birth to transformation. It is a powerful message for it is "not about pruning the tree but about uprooting the tree of our old habits that do not serve us anymore." I use this image often because people tend to relate and understand what I mean by pruning versus uprooting.
If you pulled this card during a reading it is time to question: Are you stressed? Do you need to end a relationship? Do you need to confront someone in a situation? Do you fear the unknown of what comes next, realizing you have chosen to imprison yourself in a lie?
Don't seek the answers to these questions, but rather land mark on the potential to look at your life as deeply as you can. Imagine standing at the top of well, looking down and seeing your reflection in the water...way way below. It might be scary, but you have to look, not trying to seek comfort of a friend, a yoga class, of a martini! Look in that place in you that never dies, even though the questions hopefully will. This is an opportunity to step again into your life from a new space.
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