The powerful and permanent changes that are taking place might adversely affect you, and they might not. Tarot cards that feature black skies are the ones that give us no way out. Changes that cannot be stopped are ones that can at least be harnessed and from which you can benefit. This is an indication that the sweeping changes surrounding you are providing some opportunity. The horse’s leg is raised in a slow march on a certain path, so nothing there will be spared. The warship off in the far distance lets us know that the littlest incident in our past may have led to this current state of utter immolation. The triumphant flag is to be planted as a flower on one’s grave, cold and colorless. Neither surrender nor prayers seem to help. There is little redemption in the scene depicted on this card. It is perfectly aligned between the two watchtowers featured in The Moon card. The sun is setting at the card’s far right. Off in the distance is a lake or sea with a large warship, its giant sail most prominent, but still almost a speck. In his left hand he carries a mast its flag is black with a white five-petal flower blooming. In his right hand the skeleton holds the reins and steadies the horse ahead. The horse’s bridle is leather and adorned with skulls. A bishop in ornate robes stands praying, but from the viewer’s vantage point, we see he is in the path of the horse. A small baby and an adolescent girl kneel at the hooves of the marching horse, not fighting their fate. Beneath him, one sees a dead body laid out, a corpse whose crown has fallen from its head. Under a slate gray sky, on a pale white horse, a yellowed skeleton in black armor rides across a landscape.

Pale moon deck 2014