Death tarot card meaning

  • Major Arcana
  • ending
  • conclusion
  • transition
  • passage
  • departure
Death tarot card

The ending that makes room.

Death upright

  • Bringing an unpleasant phase of life to an end
  • Recognizing and celebrating the conclusion of something
  • Putting bad habits to rest
  • Becoming a new person
  • Leaving one person, place, or thing for another
  • Letting go

Death reversed

  • Obsessing on death and dying
  • Refusing to give up old habits or unhealthy relationships
  • Insisting that everything and everyone should stay the same forever
  • Failing to take good care of yourself

Death as a prediction

  • A relationship or illness ends suddenly
  • Limit travel and risk-taking
  • General gloom and doom