Sunlit Wolf said:
Hi I have drawn Death as my card and I am very drawn to the flag which is being held. I am quite happy with what the flag means to me but I really don't know what the symbols and the picture in the flag represent or what it is could anyone please help
Thanx
Sunlit Wolf
I think you will find that the flag is emblazoned with the Mystic Rose, which is the colour of white, signifying freedom from baser forms of desire and passion and representing rebirth following death.
Waite says in his PKT
Between two pillars on the verge of the horizon there shines the sun of immortality
meaning that death is not an end it is an opening to another existence.
The people are shown as a King, child and woman to show that death does not discriminate, it can touch all from all walks of life.
Waite also seems to connect this card to the HM in that he relates the transition that can be made in this card as a mystical one, where a change in consciousness is experienced, that "ordinary death is neither the path nor gate".
Also you see in the distance in this card a ship that sails towards the shining sun, — ships were often use as symbols of transporting one to the afterlife, but this ship heads towards the rising sun showing that death is not an end it is a beginning — a new dawn is coming.
So all the symbols point towards one cycle ending, but as with all cycles, as one ends it is usually followed by renewal.
Hope this helps in some small way.
~HoneyBea~