An ending that clears the ground. Something is already over and you are the last to admit it. Not literal death.
Clinging to a corpse: fear of change keeping a dead thing alive.
“DEATH.—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. 14. TEMPERANCE.—Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation.…”— Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911
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