Death Tarot Year Card (13): Meaning and Birthdays

A year of Death

Death as a year card is rarely about physical death. It holds a year of endings: a role, a relationship, a way of seeing yourself that has run its course. The card shows a sun rising behind the rider, and the year often clears ground for what you could not grow while the old thing stood.

What the year asks

It asks you to let something end properly instead of keeping it half alive. The shadow is clinging, or its opposite: cutting everything at once and calling it change.

Sitting with it

Name what is already over in your life but still taking up room. Decide how to mark its ending, and what you want to plant in the space.

Questions for the year

What has already ended that I haven't let go?
What would I grow if this space were clear?
How do I want to mark this ending?

Who has Death as a year card

Under Greer's method, in 2026 Death is the year card for 42 of the 366 birthdays (11%): January 2, 11, 20 and 29; February 1, 10, 19 and 28; March 9, 18 and 27; April 8, 17 and 26; May 7, 16 and 25; June 6, 15 and 24; July 5, 14 and 23; August 4, 13, 22 and 31; September 3, 12, 21 and 30; October 2, 11, 20 and 29; November 1, 10, 19 and 28; December 9, 18 and 27.

Under Greer's method, in 2027 Death is the year card for 41 of the 366 birthdays (11%): January 1, 10, 19 and 28; February 9, 18 and 27; March 8, 17 and 26; April 7, 16 and 25; May 6, 15 and 24; June 5, 14 and 23; July 4, 13, 22 and 31; August 3, 12, 21 and 30; September 2, 11, 20 and 29; October 1, 10, 19 and 28; November 9, 18 and 27; December 8, 17 and 26.

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The card itself

Death: full tarot card meaning

The ending that makes room.

If it is also your birth card

Death is also a birth card for some people. In the year it comes round as your year card, the theme you were born with is the one the year brings up.

Birth cards that include Death

Death and The Emperor · 13 · 4

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