MS-0006 · The Cross · card 6 of 7
The Reaper
What he ended, he was planting, and he never turned back to see it grow.
- Element
- Fire
- Tense
- Past / testimony
- The hand
- That gave without looking back
The card
He walks unarmed through a press of struggling bodies, staff raised highest, and none of them notice him pass. From his open hand fall glowing seeds, and behind him thin shoots have already risen out of the dark ground he crossed. He does not contend, and the ending he brings is indistinguishable from the planting. This is the deck's second inversion: as the weight was the training, the death is the sowing, and the two were never separate acts.
To sit with
What did you end that you've never let yourself look back at?
What has come up since, on ground you already crossed?
Related cards
AmanuensisThe card before.He wrote down everything that came, and understood almost none of it yet.
ProphecyThe next card.The light was never his; his only part was standing where it could reach them.
The MotherThe section's first card.What she carried through the dark is finally out, and it is not finished — only born.