Death

The Pass of the Dead · a card from the Eutheum deck

Upright

endings, transformation, transition

Reversed

fear of change, stagnation

Upright meaning

The end of something that has made room for the new. This card almost never speaks of physical death: it means transformation, closing a chapter, and rebirth. Like the Pass of the Dead, through which, the Tatuns believe, the dead depart, the card speaks of a crossing, not the end of everything: parting with the past opens the way ahead.

Reversed meaning

Resisting change, holding on to what is already over, fear of the new. The transformation will come anyway. The question is whether you will let it come gently.

Love and relationships

The end of a stage in the relationship: a breakup, or the relationship transforming into something new and more mature. Reversed: holding on to a relationship that has burnt out, or fear of change within it.

Work and money

A change of job, the end of a project, restructuring, a new professional chapter. Reversed: staying stuck in a place where you no longer grow.

The card's advice

Let go of what has ended. Behind closed doors there are new ones.

In Natuland

A narrow, dark gorge in the Treul Mountains, carved by an ancient river. The people of the Kingdom of the Fifth Side of the World believe this is the way their dead depart, and they leave food and everyday objects for them at the entrance.

Symbols on the card

• A skeleton knight with a white rose banner: transformation, not the end.
• A fallen king: change doesn't pick and choose.
• An old man, a child and a girl: different answers to the inevitable: acceptance, trust and grief.
• The sun rising between two towers: a new beginning on the other side.
• A boat on the river: the crossing.
• Spirits on the slopes: the presence of those who have gone.

The cards, characters and lands come from the novel “The Eutheum Awakening”. See the book →