死神
Death
神秘暗语旧叶飘落，好让根饮下春天。
正位含义
正位关键词结束、蜕变、过渡、释放
一个篇章正在结束，为新事物腾出空间。放下已经完成的东西；这场蜕变会为重生清出土地。（这张牌几乎从不代表真正的死亡。）
逆位含义
逆位关键词抗拒改变、停滞、害怕结束、藕断丝连
你还抓着一件其实已经结束的事。改变无论如何都在发生，你越少抗拒，就越少疼痛。
大阿卡纳
二十二张王牌描绘了人生的重大历程，也就是愚者从天真走向圆满的旅程。它们出现时，意味着眼前的事情超出日常琐事，关乎更深的人生课题。
韦特原典（1910）
出自 A. E. Waite《塔罗图像之钥》（The Pictorial Key to the Tarot），已进入公有领域，以下为英文原文。
占卜含义: End, mortality, destruction, corruption also, for a man, the loss of a benefactor for a woman, many contrarieties; for a maid, failure of marriage projects.
逆位: Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism; hope destroyed.
牌面描述
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. There should be no need to point out that the suggestion of death which I have made in connection with the previous card is, of course, to be understood mystically, but this is not the case in the present instance. 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. The existing occult explanations of the 13th card are, on the whole, better than usual, rebirth, creation, destination, renewal, and the rest.
