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interpretation
The end of something whose time has come. Cutting off past influences or attachment to dominant figures. Giving up the superfluous and keeping only the essential. Disintegration of the old makes room for the new.
message
give up what is over
if reversed
Difficulty in coping with loss or change. Temporary difficulties, a trying challenge. Disintegration. Realisation of a painful truth. Does not predict future death, but may reflect anxiety about dying or mourning over a loss which has already happened.
hermetic correspondences
occult title: The Child of the Great Transformers; The Lord of the Gates of Death
qabalah: from Hod to Geburah
hebrew letter: מ
meditation:
And the woman said to the serpent "We may eat of the
fruit of the trees of the garden, but God said 'You shall
not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the
garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
But the serpent said to the woman "You will not die.
For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be
opened, and you will be as gods, knowing good and evil."
(Genesis 3:2-5)