The Empress and Death

The harvest reading, which is old and specific: the thing is cut down because it is finished growing, not because anything went wrong. The tradition uses this pair to make one of its firmest points, that an ending can be the completion of a growth rather than an interruption of it.

Associated with a relationship that ran its full length and ended, which the pair reads as a different event from one that failed.

Read for a role or a project properly concluded. The pair is warm about it and resists the language of loss.

Some things end because they are done. Grieving that as failure is a misreading of what happened.