Meaning Of The Tarot Death Card

This has to be the one card in the Tarot deck that most, if not all, people fear seeing in a reading, and yet it isn’t as dark and macabre as one might think, which is why some Tarot readers have named this card ‘Transformation’ in their Tarot decks.

If I was to say ‘Oh look, you are about to experience a transformation in your life’ how would you feel? Would you be as spooked as if you simply saw the Death card as your outcome card?

I am in the process of creating the Lotus Tarot deck and I will be naming this card ‘Transformation’ because I believe it portrays the true meaning of this card far better and without evoking the chills that the title ‘Death’ card does.

When the ‘Death’ card appears in a reading, the most common thought is that it is predicting a physical death, that someone is going to die. This, in most, if not all, cases is highly unlikely.

I am not a medium or clairvoyant, but I do use the Tarot card books to help give men and women around the world some insights into their own situations and to look at their lives from a different perspective. For example, when we fall utterly in love with someone only to be rejected and left alone is one of the greatest blows any of us can receive, man or woman. Many of you may have had such an experience and it can feel like your world has fallen apart.

Such incidences can create transformational change within us, changing our outlook and our approach to love and relationships. For example, if someone, who didn’t love you, lets you go, it can open up a whole new set of circumstances and opportunities for you.

Many people who have been bankrupt and lost everything only to change course and tactics and go on to achieve great success.

For me, the end of something, whether it be a relationship, job, career or lifestyle is only the sign that it is time for something new to be created. I am free to pursue new love if I am no longer in that relationship. {I am free to look for a better job and so on if I have lost my job}.


The tale of the Phoenix sums up the meaning of the Death card quite well, where a bird dies in the flames only to emerge and fly out of the fire transformed into something far greater.

So when the Death card appears,don't fear it. It's the sign of something in your life may come to an end. As the end the transition may be challenging and comes to pass a new beginning will present itself.

Can Tarot Cards Rule Our Lives

I constantly face people who come to me wondering why someone else’s predictions didn’t come true for them, or if God was really punishing them. As I’ve come to learn down the ages, it all boils down to taking responsibility for our own lives. Only half the story is offered by the knowledge a tarot reader, numerologist, astrologer or psychic, the other, more vital half resides in all of us as human beings on this planet. Walking out their door applying their insights in a workable way is the meaning of going to someone for predictions.

Example:

A rather gentle man seems about 25 year old came to me for a reading. He looked at me and then at the deck of cards and asked "When will I get a job?"

He began to raise his voice when I mentioned that the Tarot was based on the present moment and the energies that surround him right now, and could not offer him an exact date.He paid my fees by borrowing money. And about when exactly he would get a job, his last hope is tarot.I turned over a card. It was bleak. another. Bleaker. I had felt strongly that he was waiting for Lady Luck to whisk him away into an air conditioned cubicle in a swank building to come swooping down on him.

That afternoon when he left, in his energies, I noticed a subtle shift. He appeared eager to contact placement agents, and rewrite his resume. when he called 2 months and tell me that MNC had hired him I knew he was enroute to success. I hope he will be well.

The beautiful thing about the planets and the cards is that they can tell us the planetary position is favourable or the time is right for us to move in a certain direction. Our lives can not be ruled by the cards. Nor can they type out resumes or set interviews for us. At the end of the day,if we want to get ahead only ourselves can help.