THE PEOPLE'S TAROT · MAJOR ARCANA
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Death
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The End of an Epoch
IMAGERY
A skeleton in a greatcoat rides a red horse across a landscape littered with broken crowns, shattered stock tickers, and collapsed mansions. In one bony hand, a red flag. Behind the horse, new shoots emerge from the rubble. A child watches from a doorway, unafraid.
READING
Transformation, the end of the old order, and rebirth through destruction. The End of an Epoch is not to be feared — it is the historical necessity that clears the ground. The feudal lord dies so the bourgeois may rise; the bourgeois dies so the worker may build. What in your life has outlived its historical purpose?
SELF-CRITICISM
In the original, Death rides a pale horse. In the People's Tarot, the horse is red and the horse also has healthcare.