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Keywords:
Transformation
Rebirth
Renewal
Time to move on
Archetypes:The Wicked Witch of the West
Darth Vader
The King is dead! Long live the King!
Your big move

Upright Imagery: A black-armored skeleton rides an armored white horse toward a priest, a woman and a child, and the fallen king. He carries the banner of life, and the five-petalled rose in the banner signifies change and rejuvenation. Note that while there is death and destruction at the horse's feet, the sun is rising yellow and hopeful, and the priest seems to feel that death offers the promise of a new day.
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Upright Meanings: When Death appears upright in a reading, it signifies renewal, transformation, or a total change in your life cycle. An old chapter is coming to a close when this card shows up. For one thing to live, another must die, and what Death is really about is major change, and the leaving behind that comes with it.
You can't live in the past if it no longer has any substance or application to where you are now. After Death, the birth of new ideas follows. You'll take off in your new direction, and the horse will go between the two pillars and find the sun again. When Death appears in a reading, we can truly say that the old will be gone, and the new will follow.

 
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