The Master of Transitions

Death appears in our lives as the inevitable editor—the person or situation that ruthlessly clears the desk so you can begin again. Like the armored skeleton on his pale horse, this archetype embodies the necessary end of a phase, stripping away illusions and dead weight. It is the mentor who forces you to abandon a stale career or the crisis that demands you shed an old identity. Embrace this force not as a finality, but as the cosmic broom. Growth requires that something must die for the new to sprout.