This card has popped up quite often in readings for myself and others, so I was surprised to discover it had never been the card of the day. This is the Wildwood deck’s version of the Death card, but let’s not forget it is not literal but symbolic in most cases. Blessings!
The Journey
Reading Points: It is time to face the inevitable to let the bones be laid bare and acknowledge the deepest aspects of your fears and desires. Do not fear change, because this is also a time of purification and realignment. This change may seem extreme and destructive, but old crops must be cleared for new growth to thrive and static or sterile modes and concepts must perish. A celebration of the past or an acknowledgment of the passing of one part of life may be required. Let the threads of the old slip from your fingers with joyful remembrance and enter this time of withdrawal and renewal with patience and calm.
Roots and Branches: the leap in the dark, the funeral of illusion, Wayland Smith, The dance of death, The Washer at the Ford and the Dark Mother, defleshing the corpse, purification by fire.
The Wildwood Tarot by Mary Ryan and John Matthews, art by Will Worthington
Parting the Mists 
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