Major Arcana
Death
ending, change, letting go, closure
Upright
A skeleton in black armor rides a white horse past fallen figures, while a sun sits between two towers on the horizon. Waite's list starts with end and destruction. In a reading this card points to something finishing. It is no prediction of anyone's death or illness, and any health fear belongs with a doctor.
Consider a job, a lease or a role that has run its course. Write down what is truly over, tell those affected, and handle the practical steps one by one. Grief may come too.
Reversed
Inertia, sleep, lethargy and lost hope mark this side. An ending is stuck halfway, and energy goes into keeping alive something that no longer works.
Pick one small act that moves things: cancel the subscription, clear the desk, book the talk. If low mood or exhaustion has settled in and will not lift, see a doctor or counselor. This card offers no forecast about it.
A card is a prompt for reflection. It cannot promise a result, and it is no substitute for medical, legal or financial advice.
In Waite's words
Upright: End, mortality, destruction, corruption; also, for a man, the loss of a benefactor; for a woman, many contrarieties; for a maid, failure of marriage projects.
Reversed: Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism; hope destroyed.
From A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part 3, on Wikisource. The meanings above are by Cast & Chart.
Card art by Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.