Center for Academic Advising Selfie

Thank you to the brave mentors at the Salem State Academic Center for letting me take a selfie with them!

SYMBOLISM!!

 An analysis of all of the elements included in the Death tarot card:

Hades and Cerberus
God of the Underworld,  Death

Feathered hat

the killing of enemy combatants, a nod to the wealthy

skeleton
Death, mortality, resurrection, "all is vanity"

Broken mirror

Reflects negative/positive actions, youth & beauty

Pope's mitre 

• Ecclesiastical and temporal power
• A sign of victory

Coins

 Wealth

Scythe

•  linked with allegories of death
• "all curved weapons are lunar and feminine symbols, whereas straight ones are masculine and and solar...curves suggest the means to an end and passivity"
• incorporates the ambiguity of the beginning as the end
• "soul harvester"