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Major Arcana · Trump XIII
Death
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightAn endingTransformationClearing the way
↓ ReversedResisting an endingInertiaSleepwalking
What it means
↑ Upright
Not a death but an ending: a role, a habit or a chapter closing, and the change that clears ground for what follows. The rider on the white horse carries a black banner marked with a white rose, and beyond him the sun rises between two towers. Let what is finished be finished; mark it honestly, and do not prop it up.
↓ Reversed
An ending held off, so that something carries on in name long after its purpose has gone. Reversed, the card speaks of sleep and inertia — going through the motions while hope is quietly worn away — and refusing the change tends only to lengthen the half-light. Name what is over, and take one step out of it.
What's on the card
An armored skeleton on a white horse moves slowly forward, and every rank and age meets him in its own way: a king brought low, a bishop waiting with joined hands, a young woman turning aside, a child looking up unafraid. Waite chose this rider over the old reaper with a scythe because the card stands for change, a passage from lower to higher; the rose on the banner, he says, signifies life.
Waite's meaning, 1910
Upright
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.
Reversed
Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism; hope destroyed.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.