I feel that this thread might belong here though i didn't actually draw the death card in my readings.
The reason why i am raising this question is because i came across a death card that says transformation while googling. I believe it's the Fairy Tale tarot picture that came up.
I understand that the death card doesn't always denote death in the literal sense, but more of a huge change or a demise of old ways, old systems, old status quo.
So i am just curious. When does a death card actually show a real physical death of someone?
How do we know when that's exactly what it is saying?
Thanks!
When your intuition tells you it means that. It's very very rare that it means that. But it can on the rare occasion. In almost 15 years as a reader, Death only came up once, meaning actual death. It said the person the querent was asking about was feeling suicidal (eg he wanted to die) and she needed to help him.
Death, for me means something ending that is meant to end so that something better can come to replace it.
That can mean anything that falls under that explanation. Eg you get fired and start to look for a new job. And you find one much better for you. HAD you not been fired, you would have not been looking and not have found the better one. In that sense you were meant to lose the first one to find the second.
It can very literally mean your life ending because it was meant to happen (it's your time) and going on to the afterlife. But that's very very rare that Death does mean actual death. Not impossible but very very rarely does it mean that.
Again the only way to know when it means that if your intuition. You just FEEL inside that that IS the answer your your gut reaction won't leave you in peace until you pass on the info you are meant to to the querent.
Which is incidentally the exact and only way to know which of 2 possible card meanings is the right one. You need to feel it. Then you just know and your gut won't leave you in peace until you say what you are meant to. If you try not to say it, i you just get a strong feeling something is wrong, and it won't leave you alone until you say what you are meant to. At least that is how my intuition works for me.
The real question is if you see Death meaning death what do you do with that, morally?
If the cards tried to tell me the querent was going to die soon, I don't believe I would ever tell someone that. Although if there was a danger I would warn them. Like it if saw here in a car accident that night I would try and tell her it's not a good idea for her to go out in a car at that time.. Which is true enough...Or if it showed a way to prevent it, that I would definitely tell them.
But if I saw death for someone I am sure I would never tell them that. They deserve that time to be happy in and enjoy, the way I see it.
Babs