The title of The Death Tarot card is, ‘The Child of the Great Transformers. The Lord of the Gate of Death’. The image seen on the card is that of a skeleton with a scythe mowing man. This card signifies transmutation and disintegration. The skeleton is usually believed to survive the destructive power of time. It may even be regarded as the foundation upon which this whole structure is built. This structure is adaptable to evolution and is yet radically unchanged. The Death Man Tarot card is about the power of the soul working from above downwards.

The colours that can be related to this card are blue green, dark green, pale green, orange and red orange. The Death Tarot card can be closely related with time, ages, transformation and involuntary change. This card is also related with death and destruction. But more likely, it is related to resurrection rather than destruction. The Death Tarot card explains another aspect of life. It explains the fact that something has to go away in order to come back at the same time. It is actually the completion of a full circle.

Death and transformation are the only two things that are certain in life. Death can be closely related to Scorpio sign and the eighth house. The eighth house is about other people’s money, secrets and sexuality. So, finding about into the sexual proclivities of someone is one interpretation. If you want to know what or where the secrets are, the cards around Death will give you a clue. This card also explains the money, values and sexuality of a partner. Disk cards around The Death Card is usually a good sign of improved finances.

The image on the card can be better explained as : The veil or mask of life is perpetuated in change, transformation and passage from lower to higher, and this is more fitly represented in the rectified Tarot by one of the apocalyptic visions than by the crude notion of the reaping skeleton. Behind it lies the whole world of ascent in the spirit. The mysterious horseman moves slowly, bearing a black banner emblazoned with the Mystic Rose, which signifies life. Between two pillars on the verge of the horizon there shines the sun of immortality. The horseman carries no visible weapon, but king and child and maiden fall before him, while a prelate with clasped hands awaits his end.

Death serves as a passage for transformation. It serves as a gate to end something and to begin something new. It is a fact that something has to go away for something else to come. It is the completion of a circle. The natural transit of man to the next stage of his being either is or may be one form of his progress, but the exotic and almost unknown entrance, while still in this life, into the state of mystical death is a change in the form of consciousness and the passage into a state to which ordinary death is neither the path nor gate.