the death card equates the finality of something and the beginning of another. it is not necessary a negative card, in fact there are no negative cards only negative perspectives. a. the principle the humanization principle of death is an endless series of transformations into a new life, the dance of death: . b. skeletons and scythes during the middle ages death was identified with saturn and skeletons because it was only regarded as a destroyer, and thus, is the archenemy of mankind. the soul is immortal, but it is connected to life as our body, and that is exactly the form that death destroys. life and death, before and even now, are not considered to be parallel but are seen as victims of each other. however, because the scythe is in the hands of the dead hanging on the threads of life itself, we realize that it is the cycle of death and rebirth. on another level, the scythe is a crescent moon, corresponding to hecate – a Greek god of death, miracles, and magic. c. hemet (crown of Osiris) saturn as a reaper reflects our fear of death. however, we should not equate it with actual death. the helmet on the head of the skeleton is the crown named atef of osiris, an egyptian god of the afterlife. he, the husband of isis, became a victim of his brother’s lie, seth. seth tore him into fourteen pieces (there are many sources that claim to have twenty-seven pieces). however, the god anubis collected all the pieces, and isis awakened her beloved husband to a new life. from this beginning, osiris became the master of the domain of death in the west and was the guardian of the water of life. may osiris someday give me the water fresh. we see the same thing in legal traditions. the preacher tells of the journey into the world below, where they face demons within them who literally tear their flesh from the bones. after symbolic death is always a rebirth, and following the cutting of flesh is a miraculous advance to enter a new body.