Death As Feelings
Death as feelings reveals a complex emotional landscape. This person embodies The Transformer, The Reaper, The Phoenix energy in how they feel - transformative and liberating in their emotional expression. The card's imagery mirrors their inner world: A skeletal figure in black armor rides a white horse, carrying a black banner with a white rose. Before the horse lie various figures representing different aspects of life - a fallen king, a praying... In love, Death represents the transformation or ending of relationships, but often in service of something better. For some, this means the end of a relationship that has run its natural course, allowing both people to grow in new directions. For others, Death indicates the transformation of an existing relationship - the death of old patterns, behaviors, or dynamics to make way for a deeper, more authentic connection. This card can also represent your own transformation in approach to love, releasing old wounds, fears, or limiting beliefs about relationships to make space for true intimacy and connection.
What They're Feeling
When someone feels like Death, their primary emotions are mortality, essential truth, transformation. The skeleton in black armor in the card reflects feelings of the essential self stripped of all illusions and attachments. The white rose on banner in the card reflects feelings of purity, beauty, and life that emerges from death. Beneath the surface, there may also be feelings of release, beauty, love.
Hidden Emotions
Even when Death appears upright, there may be hidden undercurrents of resistance to change, incomplete transformation, fear of endings. These shadow emotions don't negate the primary feelings but add depth to understanding them.
How They Show These Feelings
As a water card, Death suggests this person expresses their feelings deeply and intuitively. They tend toward sensitivity, empathy, emotional depth in emotional matters. Expect them to communicate through emotional attunement, caring gestures, and unspoken understanding
What This Means for You
These feelings are genuine and present. In love, Death represents the transformation or ending of relationships, but often in service of something better. For some, this means the end of a relationship that has run its natural course, allowing both people to grow in new directions. Understanding their emotional language - shaped by water energy - will help you connect more deeply.
Death Reversed: As Feelings
When Death reversed represents feelings, the emotions are present but struggling to surface or be expressed. In love, reversed Death warns of resistance to necessary relationship changes or fear of romantic endings that prevents growth. You may be clinging to relationships that have naturally run their course, or refusing to let go of old relationship patterns that no longer serve you. This card can indicate fear of being alone, terror of relationship transformation, or the tendency to stay in situations that have become stagnant rather than face the uncertainty of change. The reversed Death may also represent incomplete relationship endings - breaking up but not truly letting go, or going through relationship motions without authentic transformation. The water energy is turned inward, creating internal emotional processing rather than outward expression.
Blocked or Unexpressed Emotions
Death reversed suggests feelings that are present but trapped. They may want to express mortality, essential truth, transformation but feel unable to. This could stem from fear, past hurt, or uncertainty about the relationship.
What They Cannot Communicate
In love, reversed Death warns of resistance to necessary relationship changes or fear of romantic endings that prevents growth. You may be clinging to relationships that have naturally run their course, or refusing to let go of old relationship patterns that no longer serve you.
Esoteric Correspondences
Understanding Death's deeper symbolism enriches your as feelings interpretation.
Golden Dawn Title
La Mort
La Morte
Element
water
Planet
Pluto
Zodiac Sign
Scorpio
Dates
October 23 - November 21
Hebrew Letter
נ (Nun)
Fish, regeneration, perpetuity
Tree of Life
Path 24
Tiphareth to Netzach (Beauty to Victory)
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