The Death Card

A client of mine drank Drano. He called his sister and told her and the Emt’s managed to save him. He spent a year and a half in the intensive care unit and lived a total of three years. You can’t go until your timecomes. One bright sunny afternoon my cat Regina jumped onto the windowsill with a bird in her mouth. The bird was playing possum. I pried her mouth open and the bird flew out across the yard and over the fence and took a right to the street and a left onto the street straight into the grill of a van.

This card explains the concept of E+Mc^2. It showed S me the process of energy changing form. At the time I was an active member of the BOTA.org. It was my week to color the Death card. I needed a part for my car and went to a junkyard. This car was a Ford Maverick named Phoenix and I was at a graveyard for cars. While I was waiting a cement truck backed into the gate. I watched the drum revolve and gotan energy rush. I felt like I could fly. It only took me a minute to realize that the rush came from backwash of the energy from the spinning concrete.

Death has an astrological connection to the sign of Scorpio. It’s a sign so complex it has three symbols. The first is a scorpion, the second symbol is a snake and the last symbol is an eagle. A scorpion’s sting can kill you. A snake sheds its skin and in the east is a symbol of wisdom and reincarnation. And an eagle flies high and has an eagle eye. I think it symbolizes astral travel and looking down from the world while astral travelling or lucid dreaming.

Death is so complex it takes three pictures to illustrate it. It’ not and event it’s a process. Most people are afraid of it. A friend of mine once said. “Life is strange you need sex to get in and death to get out”.

I enjoy being older. You think of death with a different perspective. My mother had a blood clot in her aorta, just where it branches and goes down the right leg. I imagine it was like a trapdoor swinging there. She knew and the doctor knew. Did she tell her kids? No. She started giving instructions about what she wanted. This was a month before she died. We were in her living room and I was on the couch and she was in her favorite chair. She leaned over and said. “Don’t get me wrong there’s nothing wrong with me and I’m not loony or depressed, but when it’s comes to this dying thing I’m curious.” Wow. With one sentence she changed my whole life. If Mom is curious about death what’s left to be afraid of? Plus, I have heard another older woman say the same thing six months before her passing.

Mom loved to play the daily number. She asked me to play if for her and my younger brother also was supposed to. However, I was busy and couldn’t get to it. The number for that night was 222 and it came up. It gave a whole new meaning to the phrase your number came up. I would have had a five hundred dollar parting gift from Mom. Plus, she got to share a laugh with God.

I have a little trouble with the concept of one person saving another person’s life, or being responsible for their death. I know someone only dies when their time has come. I once thought I saved a bird from my cat. She. Her mane is Regina), jumped in the window with a bird in her mouth, it was playing possum. I pried her jaw open and rescued the bird. Or so I thought. I flew out the window over a fence and made a right onto the street. Then it made a left down the street and right into the grill of a van. The only thing I did was help it meet its fate. It was a difficult lesson for me. I’m like most people; I like to think we can save someone and are in charge of our lives. I learned that death and fate are a power greater than any of us mortals.

Fate is a thorny concept. It’s a little easier if you think of yourself as the caterpillar in its cocoon. In this life we are somewhere between the caterpillar and the butterfly. An old country and western song says, “This world in not my home I’m just a passin through. If heaven is not my home oh lord what shall I do?).”

Often when I’m doing a reading the death card comes up. The client will point to it and say is that the death card. I have to tell them not to worry; it has to have some sword cards or maybe the five of cups nearby to mean death. It usually indicates a transition from one phase of life to another. The single man has to die for the husband to emerge. The little girl has to die in order to become a wife.

Think of death as graduation. They call it commencement. The student has moved into a new phase. Not yet a worker but Lost in the in between world. Kids go to the shore to work in the summer. Living is like going to the shore for a while. You know you’ll be moving on, but sad to leave this phase.