The Principle that the Tarot calls "Death" corresponds to the constellation of Scorpio, which is co-ruled by the disruptive planet, Mars, and the transformative planet, Pluto. It wouldn't be wrong to regard the two planets as octave iterations of the same energy. Scorpio is associated with the interrelated themes of sex and death. The Hebrew letter that corresponds to Death is Nun , a fish. In his Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages , Paul Foster Case tells us that, as a verb, Nun means "to sprout" or "to grow." He attributes this to the fish being an animal that reproduces prolifically. As such they are also a symbol that represents the sexual impulse itself. The corpses of fish are high in nitrogen and, for that reason, have been recognized as a good fertilizer of food crops probably for as long as people have been engaged in agrarian activity. This image - the corpse, its decay and putrefaction, and what was once a rotten fish becoming a nutri...
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