Death tarot

The appearance of the Death card strikes fear into most people - it symbolizes the ultimate unknown and consequently terrifies people.

Our bodies and minds die all the time, shedding old beliefs and forming new, more intelligent paradigms. Billions of cells in our bodies die every day, your literally are not the same person you were a year ago! The body is not solid - it is not real!

The soul lives on, and the pain of Death is caused by resistance and fear. The Death card when picked in a reading can mean spiritual transformation, letting go, new beginnings and even progress. This can indeed feel forced upon you, but ultimately it works for the good of all concerned.

The images seen in this card are the spectre riding a dark horse, our old vision of Death, the creation of Adam, if we are created, are we abandoned at death? the clock; believe in time, you make death real. The snuffed out candle; when the light comes, snuffing out the candle is the logical thing to do. The butterfly and the chrysalis; nature shows us miraculous transformation all the time; why do we believe we are exempt?

A Course in Miracles Perspective.

The Course offers perhaps one of its most radical theories on the body and therefore death, that birth and death are but part of a dream and that the life that seems to be in the body is but mind ...and eternal. Read this a few times, and think about it.

Who punishes the body is insane. For here the little gap [separation] is seen, and yet it is not here. It has not judged itself, nor made itself to be what it is not. It does not seek to make of pain a joy and look for lasting pleasure in the dust. It does not tell you what its purpose is and cannot understand what it is for. It does not victimize, because it has no will, no preferences and no doubts. It does not wonder what it is. And so it has no need to be competitive. It can be victimized, but cannot feel itself as victim. It accepts no role, but does what it is told [by the mind), without attack.

It is ... a thing that cannot see... [and] cannot hear.... it has no feeling. It behaves in ways you [the decision maker in the mind] want, but never makes the choice. It is not born and does not die. It can but follow aimlessly the path on which it has been set (T-28.VI.1:1-2:5; italics ours).