Death: And so we meet at last. Prepare to die. As seekers on the path to higher knowledge you must die many small deaths. On this path you have become and will become many different people: a child, a teen, a doctor, a husband, a mother, a grandfather, a sage. And you will have many beliefs and attitudes: the skeptic, the victim, the bold one, the griever, the mystic.  Each of these personas is but a step to becoming who you really are. When each of these masks no longer serves you, it must die to make room for the next, leaving only its memory and the things it taught you. Letting go of these self-perceptions and beliefs and allowing me to cut them away can be painful and terrifying, but it is most necessary if you wish to evolve as a human being. And when your physical body ceases to function and no longer serves you, I am the one who cuts away your… Read More »

JAMES BOND: What do you expect me to do, Goldfinger? GOLDFINGER: Why, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die. From Goldfinger screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Paul Dehn We are all expected to die. We don’t know when. We don’t know where. We don’t know how. And we don’t know what, if anything, will happen afterward. The only thing we know for certain is that it is the end of life on earth as we know it. So if it’s the end, why isn’t Death the last of the major arcana cards? If the card has a number, it is always 13, that most infamous of integers. Even today many buildings do not possess a thirteenth floor, and otherwise sane citizens look over their shoulders a bit more often whenever Friday the 13th rolls around. It’s not an auspicious number, but it’s not the last number, which is 21, The World, completion. According to the tarot, Death is not the end. Since the major arcana… Read More »