死神
Death
神秘暗語舊葉飄落，好讓根飲下春天。
正位含義
正位關鍵詞結束、蛻變、過渡、釋放
一個篇章正在結束，為新事物騰出空間。放下已經完成的東西；這場蛻變會為重生清出土地。（這張牌幾乎從不代表真正的死亡。）
逆位含義
逆位關鍵詞抗拒改變、停滯、害怕結束、藕斷絲連
你還抓著一件其實已經結束的事。改變無論如何都在發生，你越少抗拒，就越少疼痛。
大阿卡納
二十二張王牌描繪了人生的重大曆程，也就是愚者從天真走向圓滿的旅程。它們出現時，意味著眼前的事情超出日常瑣事，關乎更深的人生課題。
韋特原典（1910）
出自 A. E. Waite《塔羅影像之鑰》（The Pictorial Key to the Tarot），已進入公有領域，以下為英文原文。
占卜含義: 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.
