moon & death cards

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 12 Nov 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

ros	12 Nov 2003
I had a reader once say to me when the Moon card came up "Think of someone that has passed over, they are thinking of you." also one reader took the Death card & cover it from the right top corner to the left bottom corner & said "The darkness of your past ,(then turned the card to it's opposite & said)"will bring you sunshine." I think it works, any comments?

HudsonGray	12 Nov 2003
The moon is more an internal card, but she might have been doing an intuitive reading, so the interpretation would work. The hazy lands beyond the towers/gates/last bastion of manmade works does stand for the unknown lands. If it worked for you, great! How was her reading, overall?

ros	13 Nov 2003
thanks, the reading was fine.when I tried this in a few readings I explain what the moon card means & when I tell them that someone that passed over is thinking of them, they always have a peaceful smile. I don't know if it is right or wrong but if it brings anything positive to them that's all that counts.

Mystic Zyl	13 Nov 2003
I tell people when they see the death card, first not to worry! I look to see what is around the Death card, use clarifying cards, to understand more about the energies that surround it. I use Universal Waite deck to read from most of the time. On the Death card in this deck is a white rose and a sun that is rising( it could be setting but I feel it is rising), these are positive changes. Death is a cycle, like in humans, energy is never lost, just transformed to spirit. So I say, just as the flower (referring to the rose) dies in the fall it comes back stronger in the spring. Death is a change in a life cycle, the end to something, beginning for something else. For instance, ladies come for readings because they are in an abusive relationship, when the Death card appears in certain positions in the spread it means an end to the situation that the client is in. Hopfully, she is brave enough to do it, like the death card crossed by the Strength card followed by something like the Nine of Pentacles or the Sun. I feel you should not give the Death card the same meaning in all of your readings. Figure out what the Death card means to that specific reading. There are some people that do not believe in afterlife, then what are you going to do?

ros	13 Nov 2003
I use the death card as new beginnings or leaving the past for new future etc. For the ones that don't believe in afterlife, if they would give me a hard time about it I would just say that tarot is interpretation work, so they can interpertate how they want what I explained , whatever works for them.

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