Tag: Tarotcard XIII Death

Tarot card Death is the 13th Tarot card from the Major Arcana. On the Old decks, the number XIII was never shown. But nowadays we are less afraid of this ‘unlucky number’. This Tarot card does not represent physical death, but symbolizes rebirth. The spiritual and philosophical meaning of Death is Transformation and (spiritual) growth.

Tarotcard XIII Death from the tarotdeck of Waite-Smith

The seed on Tarot card ‘Death’

“Unumquodque habet in se semen suae Regenerationis“

(“Each thing carries within itself the seed of its own regeneration.”)

This mystical statement, attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, is quoted in the book “A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery” (1850) by Mary Anne Atwood (1817 – 1910). Mary Anne Atwood was a 19th-century writer, philosopher, and alchemist whose work influenced Arthur Edward Waite.

According to Atwood, the words from the quote (whether or not from Hermes Trismegistus) seemed to articulate a profound alchemical and spiritual truth: everything in the universe has the potential to renew, transform and evolve itself.

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