For today I've
drawn Death from the Crystal Visions Tarot. I like this version of Death a lot.
It has dark and light in it and depicts sadness and hope. Recently I've read a really great post about Death by Olivia from First Earth Tarot.
She emphasizes
the necessity to see Death as so much more than a card for new beginnings. Of
course we all agree that if you want to give way for change often some things
have to end first. But ending parts of your life which have been dear to you
for perhaps many years is raw and painful and there is sadness, fear, grief and not knowing
what to do or where to go next.
The body of
the woman is merging into stone while the butterflies, a symbol of
transformation, fly away. There is even moss growing on her leg so she must have
been there for a long time, The Angel of Death is standing beside her, following the
process. Because that is, in my opinion, the most important aspect of the Death card: going through the
process. The death card is more about the work than about the reward afterwards.
I have had
a lot of “Death” experiences in my life and only afterwards I was grateful for
every one of them, but during these periods of intense pain and sadness I didn't
find a single butterfly.
“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly” R. Bach
(The text
on the stone says: Life is changed not taken away)
