Major Arcana · XIII
Death
the thing is dead. stop trying to revive it.
upright — what she sees
the thing is dead. stop trying to revive it. drawn upright, death speaks of ending, transformation, release. she reads it as a turning toward the thing, not away from it — compost made plain.
reversed — what she withholds
you're carrying the body around. set it down. reversed, the card turns inward — clinging, denial, fear of change. not a curse. a closed door you keep your own hand on.
in a spread
in the daily veil, death is the day's temperature — upright it asks you to lean in, reversed it asks what you're bracing against. in a three-card line it colours past, present, or the thing approaching. draw it yourself and she'll read it for you, in your own words.
near it in the deck