Dulcimer said:
Isn't that what Levi, Waite, and Crowley were trying to convey when they placed the cards in this order?
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Let me clarify that when i said "in this deck" i mean about the images in the sequence, not the sequence itself.
I don't say that the next card is The Sun, obviously, cause all these are placed in the "dark part" (subconscious, unconscious, whatever you wanna call it...) of the road.
What i mean is that just for me what the Death card is saying is "Death doesn't exist", is an "ilusion" or a transmutation, a transformation, and i feel that cause it is placed in the half of the road and not in the end, that shows the direction of the flag too.
But traditionaly the name was "The Death", so how to show that Waite didn't believe in it? (In Marseille decks is shown in red color, and the active movement of the skeleton...)
So, who have created the Tarot wanted to make us a joke? I don't guess. But i think that for sure have used a known image to say many more than the usual meaning.
That's why i'm sure that when Tarot shows a Sun is always rising, or is always "alive", i can even see it behind the moon in the proper The Moon card.
For me Tarot doesn't believe in death, and the images of the Sun is with what this position is illustrated.
But for sure is a very personal view...your seems very eloquent too.