The Lovers and Death

Union drawn with the card of endings, and the tradition reads it as plainly as it looks: a relationship or an alliance is finished. What it adds is that Death is the one trump with no reversal available, so the pair does not offer the possibility that this is a rough patch.

Associated with a relationship ending. The pair is neither harsh nor consoling about it and does not read it as anybody's failure.

Read for a partnership or collaboration ending. The pair notes that the ending is often overdue rather than sudden.

This one does not turn back. Grieving it is the work; negotiating with it is not available.