Morte

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Il significato principale di Morte è La fine completa del vecchio. Al dritto, solitamente indica Fine, trasformazione, rinascita, cambiamento inevitabile. Simboleggia la chiusur; rovesciata, potrebbe suggerire Resistere al cambiamento, alla stagnazione, al decadimento, all'incapacità di la.

Immagini della carta

Un cavaliere scheletrico in armatura nera avanza lentamente su un cavallo bianco, portando uno stendardo nero con una rosa bianca. Sotto gli zoccoli del cavallo giacciono un re caduto, un vescovo in preghiera e un bambino innocente. Torri gemelle e un sole nascente segnano l'orizzonte.

Significato al dritto

Fine, trasformazione, rinascita, cambiamento inevitabile. Simboleggia la chiusura completa di un vecchio capitolo, liberando spazio affinché qualcosa di nuovo possa crescere.

Significato invertito

Resistere al cambiamento, alla stagnazione, al decadimento, all'incapacità di lasciare andare. Può indicare aggrapparsi al passato, prolungare il dolore e bloccare l'ingresso in una nuova fase.

Amore, carriera, denaro e crescita

Amore

Innamorato, Morte indica La fine completa del vecchio. Rileggilo confrontandolo con il modo in cui si comporta effettivamente la relazione e con ciò che scegliete entrambi.

Carriera

In materia di carriera, Morte indica La fine completa del vecchio. Inizia individuando quali risorse controlli e quale sarà la tua prossima mossa.

Soldi

In materia di soldi, Morte indica La fine completa del vecchio. Non considerare una lettura simbolica come una conclusione di investimento: segui i fatti, il budget e la tua tolleranza al rischio.

Crescita personale

Per la crescita personale, Morte indica La fine completa del vecchio. Annota la domanda che solleva, quindi trasformala in un'azione che puoi effettivamente verificare.

Sì o no

Diritto

No

Rovesciata

Forse

Questa è la nostra lettura veloce, basata sulla direzione in cui tende il significato della carta. Le tradizioni non sono d'accordo sulle singole carte, e un "Forse" deve essere valutato rispetto alla posizione nello spread e alla situazione reale piuttosto che essere preso come una risposta di una sola parola.

Testo originale di Waite (1911)

Simbolismo interiore (originale)

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.

Significato originale al dritto

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.

Significato originale invertito

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

Citato da A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), illustrato da Pamela Colman Smith. Il testo è di pubblico dominio.

Origini del mito e dei simboli

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.

Fonte 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.

Fonte 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.

Fonte 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."

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

Scritto da BESTAROT, non citato da fonti storiche. Ogni affermazione è contrassegnata da quanto bene è dimostrata; gli strati interpretativi moderni sono utili per la lettura, ma non costituiscono l’origine storica della carta.

Studia il tema: Mito e origini dei simboli (Accademia capitolo 6)