XIII. Death

 

Death greets the Fool, bearing his horrifying
gifts of change, ending, and transformation.  Death eliminates the Fool’s apparencies of Ego, Attachment, Fear, and Refusal.  The Fool faces his own avidyā and befriends the ghoulish spectre, comprehending that Death (and Change) is not a permanent state—it is simply the fabric of the equation upon which the universe is founded: Creation, Preservation, and Destruction.  Thus Death, the Great Transformer, teaches the Fool the valuable lesson of Transition.

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