Keywords: transformation, endings, transition, release, inevitable change, rebirth, cycle, crossing
Death does not arrive to destroy you — it arrives to complete a chapter so that the next one can begin, and it does this work with a precision that nothing else in the deck can match. What is ending in your life right now has run its full course; it has given you everything it was capable of giving, and clinging to it will cost you the energy you need for what is coming. The skeleton on the horse does not hate the figures who fall before it — it is simply doing the most necessary work in the universe, which is clearing the field. Grief is appropriate here; do not bypass it in your eagerness to find the silver lining. But know that on the other side of the genuine release, something is already waiting — not as a replacement, but as a continuation of your becoming. You are not ending; you are crossing.