Muerte

respuesta rapida

El significado principal de Muerte es El fin total de lo viejo.. Del derecho, suele apuntar a Finales, transformación, renacimiento, cambio inevitable. Simboliza el cierre co; invertida, puede sugerir Resistirse al cambio, al estancamiento, a la decadencia, a la incapacidad de dej.

Imágenes de tarjetas

Un caballero esquelético con armadura negra avanza lentamente sobre un caballo blanco, portando un estandarte negro con una rosa blanca. Debajo de los cascos del caballo yacen un rey caído, un obispo orando y un niño inocente. Torres gemelas y un sol naciente marcan el horizonte.

Significado del derecho

Finales, transformación, renacimiento, cambio inevitable. Simboliza el cierre completo de un capítulo antiguo, dejando espacio para que crezca algo nuevo.

Significado invertido

Resistirse al cambio, al estancamiento, a la decadencia, a la incapacidad de dejarse llevar. Puede indicar aferramiento al pasado, prolongando el dolor y bloqueando la entrada a una nueva fase.

Amor, carrera, dinero y crecimiento

amor

Enamorado, Muerte señala a El fin total de lo viejo.. Vuelve a leerlo teniendo en cuenta cómo se comporta realmente la relación y lo que ambos están eligiendo.

carrera

En cuestiones profesionales, Muerte apunta a El fin total de lo viejo.. Empiece por determinar qué recursos controla y cuál será su próximo paso.

dinero

En cuestiones de dinero, Muerte apunta a El fin total de lo viejo.. No trates una lectura simbólica como una conclusión de inversión; guíate por los hechos, el presupuesto y tu propia tolerancia al riesgo.

Crecimiento personal

Para el crecimiento personal, Muerte apunta a El fin total de lo viejo.. Escribe la pregunta que plantea y luego conviértela en una acción que realmente puedas comprobar.

Si o No

Derecho

No

Invertido

tal vez

Esta es nuestra propia lectura rápida, basada en la dirección en la que se inclina el significado de la carta. Las tradiciones no están de acuerdo con respecto a las cartas individuales, y un "Quizás" debe sopesarse con la posición en la distribución y su situación real en lugar de tomarse como una respuesta de una sola palabra.

Texto original de Waite (1911)

Simbolismo interior (original)

The veil or mask of life is perpetuated in change, transformation and passage from lower to higher, and this is more fitly represented in the rectified Tarot by one of the apocalyptic visions than by the crude notion of the reaping skeleton. Behind it lies the whole world of ascent in the spirit. The mysterious horseman moves slowly, bearing a black banner emblazoned with the Mystic Rose, which signifies life. Between two pillars on the verge of the horizon there shines the sun of immortality. The horseman carries no visible weapon, but king and child and maiden fall before him, while a prelate with clasped hands awaits his end.

There should be no need to point out that the suggestion of death which I have made in connection with the previous card is, of course, to be understood mystically, but this is not the case in the present instance. The natural transit of man to the next stage of his being either is or may be one form of his progress, but the exotic and almost unknown entrance, while still in this life, into the state of mystical death is a change in the form of consciousness and the passage into a state to which ordinary death is neither the path nor gate. The existing occult explanations of the 13th card are, on the whole, better than usual, rebirth, creation, destination, renewal, and the rest.

Significado original del derecho

End, mortality, destruction, corruption; also, for a man, the loss of a benefactor; for a woman, many contrarieties; for a maid, failure of marriage projects.

Significado original invertido

Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism; hope destroyed.

Citado de A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), ilustrado por Pamela Colman Smith. El texto es de dominio público.

Orígenes de mitos y símbolos

The reaping skeleton is the medieval Danse Macabre scheme; Waite says he replaced it with the rider from Revelation.

Documented imagery

Attested by surviving objects or texts

The Danse Macabre takes everyone alike

The figures fallen in the foreground are a king, a bishop (the cleric waiting with hands joined), a maiden and a child. This is the standard cast of the medieval Danse Macabre and Triumph of Death image traditions: Death leads people of every rank in one dance, pope and beggar in the same line, the point being that rank counts for nothing before it. In Petrarch's Trionfi, Death is likewise the car that conquers Chastity.

Fuente The medieval Danse Macabre and Triumph of Death image traditions; Petrarch's Trionfi

Esoteric correspondence

A sourced traditional claim, but constructed inside an occult system

Waite replaced the skeleton with a rider

Waite states it plainly: the meaning is, "more fitly represented in the rectified Tarot by one of the apocalyptic visions than by the crude notion of the reaping skeleton." Death on horseback comes from Revelation 6:8. He also writes that the black banner bears the Mystic Rose, which "signifies life," and that between two pillars on the horizon rises "the sun of immortality." Which is to say: the life and the immortality on this card were deliberately put there by the author to hold death down.

Fuente Revelation 6:8; Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911, Death

Scorpio and the letter Nun

The Golden Dawn assigns Death to Scorpio (Hebrew letter Nun, which literally means "fish" and is often described as bound up with continuation and generation). What the Scorpio attribution brings is the register of a complete change of form, not of stopping.

Fuente Golden Dawn Book T zodiacal attributions

Modern reading

Popular only since the twentieth century; unrelated to where the card came from

"Death never means death" — that has been pushed too far

To avoid frightening querents, modern divination says as a matter of course that this card is only about transformation and is never death. Waite's text is finer-grained than that: he says the death mentioned on the previous card "is, of course, to be understood mystically, but this is not the case in the present instance," and distinguishes a person passing naturally into the next stage from entering the mystical death within this life. He also, unusually for him, pays it a compliment: the existing esoteric readings of this card are "on the whole, better than usual," and rebirth, creation and renewal all count. So the accurate statement is this: the weight of the card falls on a complete replacement of form, not on "it has nothing to do with death."

Fuente The standard modern divinatory disclaimer; the distinction Waite draws in this same entry in 1911

Escrito por BESTAROT, no citado de fuentes históricas. Cada afirmación se etiqueta según su grado de evidencia; Las capas interpretativas modernas son útiles para la lectura, pero no representan el origen histórico de la carta.

Estudie el tema: Orígenes de mitos y símbolos (capítulo 6 de la Academia)