The harvest of the ego

Because of his image many are resembled to death. The reality is that in our lives we must learn to let go, to let go of the old so we can give place to the new. This is what the nameless arcane comes to teach us. Let us learn the importance of detachment in order to receive the true.

Beyond this arcane is known as death, let us bear in mind that the card has no name.

• The scythe is the element of cut, of change, where it gives us the opportunity to transform the old into something new.
• The skeleton, representing death, is the one who handles it. His eye reminds us of the Ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail.
• The floor is black. This brings us back to the occult. On the other hand there are human remains. The most notorious is a man’s head and a woman’s head, two hands, two feet and two bones. Think of nature itself; in autumn, the trees drop their leaves, let them die and these help the earth in the growth of something new. In turn give rise to the birth of new leaves. So everything on the ground will help the development of a new life.

In front of our consultant

Death is transformation. This card marks us an end of cycle. In my experience as a tarotist, he appears many times to mark the end of a relationship or cut a conflicting process for the consultant. This gives rise to new opportunities.

Inverted tells us about a cut, but the process of letting go will be much more difficult and painful. It implies negative feelings and thoughts, along with a lack of acceptance that the end of something has arrived.

Numerology

Number thirteen. Culturally it is related to bad luck, giving rise to days like “Tuesday 13 or Friday 13”. Although in reality, this number, we want to offer the same message as the character of our card. It is a number of change and transformation. Recall that the 13 has the energy of 1 (The Magician) and 3 (The Empress). The Magician is an alchemist whose power is to transmute and represents a beginning; while the Empress speaks of a new feminine energy in relation to The Pope.

To Conclude

What will die is our ego. We in this life are embarking on a journey where the sense of it is our responsibility. We must seize the opportunities presented to cut ties and attachments in order to move forward. All profound changes will be a necessary process.