Thirteen is the number of death and rebirth in the tarot: an ending that opens a new cycle. It is less unlucky than transformative.
When the dream feels light
Thirteen speaks of change that frees and a renewal.
When the dream feels dark
A frightening thirteen points to fear of change or superstition that blocks you.
Ask yourself
What change am I afraid of?
Correspondences
- Archetype
- Death and Rebirth — The great transformation: something ends so that something else can live.
- Element
- Spirit — the sacred and the unseen
- Planet
- Saturn
- Tarot card
- Death
- Alchemical stage
- Nigredo, the Blackening
Death and rebirth, the step beyond the full twelve.
Words that call this sign
13, thirteen
Related signs
The Serpent · The Butterfly · The Frog · Fire · The River · Rain · Blood · Bones
The card of this dream
Death. An ending that clears the ground for what must be born. Death rides a white horse beneath a black banner with a white rose; kings fall, while the sun rises between two towers. It is rarely physical death: it is an end that clears the way, a transformation, a door that closes so another can open.