Daily Draw - Death, Page of Cups and The Sun

This week I'm working with the Cachet Tarot. (I enjoy much of the Major Arcana and Court cards, so it's a real bummer that the Minor Arcana cards aren't scenic.) This cards I drew today relate to a reading my son recently did for himself, so before I display today's cards, I will share the reading that this one is referring to.

Last week when we saved the two caterpillars, my son was worried that they wouldn't grow well in captivity. He thought they might die. So he got out his Tarot of the Pirates deck and asked if the caterpillars would live or die. The Knave (Page) of Wands fell out of the deck. Then he drew the Nine of Pentacles, The Lovers and Death.


Here was his reading in his words:


Nine of Pentacles: "We found the caterpillars, and they are a treasure to us." (The card shows a treasure being discovered.)
The Lovers: "We love them."
Death: Brief silence, followed by: "Death... when I was shuffling the cards, that's the card I was hoping wouldn't come up, but it did."
Knave of Wands: "I don't know what this one could mean."

Before giving him my thoughts, I asked him if he thought the cards had an overall good feeling or bad feeling. He said the Death card was the only one that sounded like bad news, but the rest of them were good. But he was not happy to see the Death card, when asking a life or death question! I quickly explained the Page of Wands to him, and said that it looked like a strong, healthy, energetic young man, and this seemed to point to the well-being of the caterpillars' health.

Then I explained that while the Death card could possibly mean that the caterpillars would die, there were two things that made me think otherwise. Firstly, the other cards were very positive, so physical death would seem out of place. Also, and more interestingly, I often see Death as the metamorphosis card. Now, seeing that we were talking about the lifespan of caterpillars, there couldn't be a more fitting card in the deck to tell us that they would live to transform into chrysalises and then butterflies.

Now for today's draw with the Cachet Tarot... (Sorry for the poor quality photos. Will make a better attempt tomorrow.)



I drew Death, Page of Cups and The Sun. (The Page of Cups is the tarot card that represents my son.) This morning we woke up to find that the caterpillars had transformed into chrysalises. We were all so excited! They stopped eating two days ago and have been hanging from the top of the enclosure. The Death card reminded me of my son's reading, and how I interpreted it as metamorphosis. It was so neat to have it come up again in my cards on the exact day that the next stage of the caterpillars lives occurred! Closing out the reading with The Sun is just perfect. This is my son, overjoyed with the outcome.

Decks: Cachet Tarot and Tarot of the Pirates