This card is for the one and only, well-known fetish and symbol of Death with the scythe.
It comes riding on a white horse, dressed with armour. It is the warrior that comes with peace, carrying a black flag with a white flower; the flower of pure love. With its five petals, referring to the five senses soon to be taken away. Death comes as a portal from the physical plane taking all living back to the spirit world where senses won’t be needed anymore.
It steps slowly, proudly sitting on the back of a white horse. There is no rush as is inevitable. It sees beyond time and beyond any earthly feelings, it is distant and objective, and above the petty details of everyday existence. It comes with confidence and calmness of foreseen destiny.
In the background the sun is rising between two columns, (those we will see again in the Moon card) these two towers of opposites are towers of Good and Evil. Around them, all is green and thriving, full of life as untouched by its hand.
Beneath the legs of the horse, an elderly man is lying dead- this is a sign of transformation that comes with age. In front of the horse is a minister of religion greeting it with open arms, as with faith comes the knowing and recognition of the cycles of life. The young boy in blue ( the colour of hope and imagination), is greeting Death with the innocence of a young soul that is still not attached to the material and embraces transformation with no fear. The young girl in white behind the boy, has her face away from the sight of the horseman, as she knows she is still young and life is in front of her, but an untimely departure is in place.
And still, there is something majestic and very appealing in her figure. Death is demolishing the old and brief, leaving the perpetual. Death comes with a measuring tool of eternity and judges what is here to stay and what is transient. It comes to clear the unnecessary.
The story of Death: transformation, inevitable change, dying of old-self in order to give life to the new-self
© ZANARA
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