In today’s episode, we’re exploring the Skull & Bones Tarot Spread by Evie of Interrobang Tarot—a six-card layout designed to help you reckon with endings, honor mortality, and find renewal in change.
What we explore in this episode:
How to use tarot as a tool for shadow work
What it means to find comfort and courage in impermanence
The Skull and Bones Tarot Spread
Credit The Skull & Bones Tarot Spread by Evie at Interrobang Tarot
This spread is not a gentle reading. It asks you to look closely at what you’ve buried and decide whether it’s time to dig or to let the earth reclaim it. But it’s also deeply loving. It reminds us that even decay has purpose. The cards, as always, mirror the natural world: cycles of bloom and fall, light and shadow, birth and rot. To resist death is to resist life.
1. The Death Within My Life - Queen of Cups (Reversed)
This card speaks of emotional exhaustion. She’s overextended, perhaps even numb from giving too much of herself. It asks to stop trying to hold everyone else’s grief and instead tend to my own heart. To rest. To refill. It’s not selfishness—it’s survival.
2. The Life Within My Death - The High Priestess
From the quiet of rest comes intuition. She sits at the threshold between worlds, serene and self-contained. She doesn’t fear mystery; she listens to it. This card whispered that the new life being born within me will not come through logic or productivity, but through stillness and inner knowing.
3. To Be a Better Human - Ten of Swords (Upright)
A classic symbol of painful endings, this card reminds me that sometimes the worst is simply over. It doesn’t need to be resurrected in my mind over and over. This card is the deep exhale after the storm—a prompt to stop identifying with suffering and start walking toward the horizon again.
4. To Be a Better Animal - Ten of Pentacles (Reversed)
This card speaks to imbalance in the body and home. It reminded me that my animal self needs care, not correction. I don’t need more perfection or planning. I need grounding. Food that comforts. Rest that restores. The message here is simple: honor the body you have.
5. To Be a Better Skeleton - Six of Cups (Upright)
This is the tender heart of the spread. This card invites us to remember innocence—to find joy in simple, fleeting things. To be a better skeleton means to hold life lightly, knowing that everything passes, and that beauty exists precisely because it is impermanent.
6. To Be a Dancing One - The Fool (Upright)
The Fool closes the spread like a sunrise after a long night. The message is pure and powerful: you are free to begin again. Transformation isn’t about erasing what came before—it’s about stepping forward with curiosity and courage. The Fool teaches us to live with open palms, trusting that what falls away will always make space for something new.
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