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“Death Becomes Her” is an interpretation of the Death card from the Major Arcana in tarot. The Death card is frequently misunderstood and misrepresented in media and pop culture as a harbinger of doom, but in actual tarot the Death card represents the end or conclusion of a major phase in life, usually because it has come to a natural conclusion, or it has served its purpose in the person’s journey. Something has to “die” in order to make room for new things. This juxtaposition is represented by the contrast of the skeletal woman surrounded by flowers and growth. She is surrounded by asphodel, a flower sacred to Hades and symbolic of the Underworld. Hellenistic symbolism is often utilized in tarot, due to Hellenism serving as one of the bases for Carl Jung and his development of psychological archetypes. Jung believed in the idea of a universal collective unconscious and noticed that many of the same figures appeared within myth, stories, and dreams spanning across time and culture. The first recorded references to tarot are from between 1440 and 1450 and they contained many of the archetypes that Jung later put name to in the 1900s, such as “the father,” “the mother,” “the maiden,” and “the trickster.” TLDR: sociology, anthropology, and psychology are so cool
“Death Becomes Her” is an interpretation of the Death card from the Major Arcana in tarot. The Death card is frequently misunderstood and misrepresented in media and pop culture as a harbinger of doom, but in actual tarot the Death card represents the end or conclusion of a major phase in life, usually because it has come to a natural conclusion, or it has served its purpose in the person’s journey. Something has to “die” in order to make room for new things. This juxtaposition is represented by the contrast of the skeletal woman surrounded by flowers and growth. She is surrounded by asphodel, a flower sacred to Hades and symbolic of the Underworld. Hellenistic symbolism is often utilized in tarot, due to Hellenism serving as one of the bases for Carl Jung and his development of psychological archetypes. Jung believed in the idea of a universal collective unconscious and noticed that many of the same figures appeared within myth, stories, and dreams spanning across time and culture. The first recorded references to tarot are from between 1440 and 1450 and they contained many of the archetypes that Jung later put name to in the 1900s, such as “the father,” “the mother,” “the maiden,” and “the trickster.” TLDR: sociology, anthropology, and psychology are so cool