Tarot card meanings · Major Arcana
Death Tarot Card Meaning
Endings, transition and renewal
Upright meaning
Death marks a genuine ending and the space it creates. It is less about literal events than about an identity, pattern or chapter that can no longer continue in its old form.
Reversed meaning
Reversed, Death may show resistance to a necessary transition or an ending that has been postponed. Let the old shape finish so something more honest can begin.
Death in love
In love, it can signal a profound change in the relationship or the end of a repeating pattern. Reversed, history may be keeping both people in an old version of the bond.
Death in career
In career, a role, plan or professional identity may be ready to transform. Reversed, fear of uncertainty can keep you in work that has already ended inwardly.
A question to sit with
What am I ready to stop carrying into the next chapter?