Death Reversed As Feelings (Interesting Meaning)
The death tarot can seem an ominous harbinger. Death, a skeletal figure, shrouded in a hooded cloak, stares into the middle distance. Dramatic bloke ain’t he?
Death is possibly one of the most misunderstood cards in the entire Tarot (thanks for that Hollywood) and I always feel myself jumping to explain the meaning before people panic. Before we get to that though I do have a real warning you need to understand.
The Tarot gives guidance in context. It’s very easy to misread a feelings Tarot spread with a single card. If you’d like me to do a full tarot spread for you just click here and send me the details. Your reading will be sent to you within a few hours tops.
This warning out of the way, let’s look at the reversed Death as feelings and what it can mean.
No need to be spooked. There are lots of death cards in the tarot, and rarely do any of them actually mean death, and if you are just pulling tarot cards, I wouldn’t worry about it.
I went through a period where I got the death card as the end result of a reading everyday for a couple of months, and then I started getting nervous. So I got a second opinion, and sure enough it meant nothing of the sort. It actually was an indication that I wasn’t going to be single and complaining anymore, and I got into a long term relationship shortly after. So here it was a good thing.
Getting death cards tend to be an indication that hard times are coming to an end.
Death stares out of a window in the ridley pack, or simply appears as a skull littered with flowers and hollow eyes in other versions. In most versions, death rides a pale horse bearing a flag. Death rarely implies physical death as the tarot cards show the deep, spiritual side of reality and rarely depict concrete events in the realms of the physical. Instead, death indicates an ending, the death of a hope or dream, the weakening of potential, the slamming of a door.
When reversed, as with all the tarot cards, death should show the opening of opportunity, the birth of a new dawn. However, you have to ask yourself why the death card appeared revered as opposed to a happy harbinger appearing upright? Death represents natural change, it can show that the seeker is trying to change things unnaturally, to push things before their time. Death revered show blocked or delayed change. As opposed to the tower which shows chaotic, supernal energy, death represents lettings things take their course.
What does the reversed death card mean in terms of feelings? Matters of the heart are always the trickiest, the most complex and therefore require the most intuitive interpretation. The other cards that appeared with the reversed death, if any, will also play a part.
