Death

Major Arcana, 13 — from The 1909 London Deck.

Upright

endings, transition, clearing

Not in the form you are picturing. Death is the card of things genuinely ending so that something else has room, and it is rarely gentle about the timing. What is finishing here needed to finish.

In a yes or no reading, Death upright answers no.

Reversed

clinging, a slow ending, resisting the inevitable

Something is over and is being held on to anyway, which draws it out without changing it. The longer this takes, the more it costs. Let it go and the next thing can start.

In a yes or no reading, Death reversed answers maybe — the situation has not settled.

What this card does in a reading here

A reading draws one card and answers the question you asked with it. Death can come up either way up — reversals are on in this deck, because the 1909 original was drawn with them in mind — and the two readings above are the starting point, not the answer. The answer depends on what you asked.

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