Death Tarot Ritual: New Moon Manifestation

BY NICOLE LAU

Death New Moon Ritual: Manifesting Through Endings and Rebirth

The Death New Moon Ritual is a powerful ceremonial practice for manifesting through transformation, conscious endings, and the death-rebirth cycle. Unlike manifestation rituals focused on addition, this ritual acknowledges that true manifestation often requires subtraction—letting die what no longer serves so what you desire can be born. This is manifestation through release, creation through destruction, and rebirth through death.

Understanding Death Manifestation

Death teaches that manifestation is not about adding more to your life—it's about clearing space for what wants to emerge. You cannot manifest the new while clinging to the old. True manifestation under Death's influence requires:

• Willingness to let what's dead die completely
• Courage to end what no longer serves
• Trust that destruction precedes creation
• Acceptance that transformation is necessary
• Release of old identities to become who you're meant to be
• Understanding that rebirth requires death

This ritual is particularly powerful for manifesting: major life transformations, new identities after endings, rebirth after loss, career changes, relationship renewal, and situations requiring complete metamorphosis.

Timing: When to Perform This Ritual

Optimal Timing:

• New Moon in Scorpio (October/November): Most powerful for Death work, as Scorpio is Death's zodiac sign
• Any New Moon: New beginnings through endings and transformation
• New Moon in Water Signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces): Enhanced emotional transformation and deep release
• Samhain/Halloween (October 31): The veil is thin, death energy is strong
• During major life transitions: To consciously die to old forms and be reborn
• After significant losses: To transform grief into rebirth

Avoid performing this ritual when:

• You're unwilling to let go or face endings
• You're in acute grief without support
• You're using it to avoid necessary action
• You're not ready for major transformation

Materials Needed

Essential Items:

• Death tarot card (from any deck)
• One black candle (representing death and endings)
• One white candle (representing rebirth and new beginnings)
• Black tourmaline or obsidian (for protection during transformation)
• Clear quartz (for clarity and amplification)
• White paper and black pen
• Fireproof bowl or cauldron
• Matches or lighter
• Myrrh or cypress incense
• Black or white cloth for altar

Optional Items:

• Smoky quartz (for grounding during transformation)
• Labradorite (for transformation and rebirth)
• Small skull or skeleton imagery (memento mori)
• White rose (life emerging from death)
• Ashes or soil (representing death and decay)
• Seeds (representing new life from death)

Ritual Preparation

Space Preparation:

• Cleanse your ritual space thoroughly with smoke or sound
• Create an altar with black or white cloth as base
• Place Death card at center
• Position black candle on left (death/endings)
• Position white candle on right (rebirth/beginnings)
• Arrange crystals around the card
• Place fireproof bowl in front of card
• Have paper and pen ready for writing

Personal Preparation:

• Bathe or shower with intention to release the old
• Wear black, white, or both
• Fast for 3-6 hours before ritual (optional but powerful)
• Meditate for 10 minutes on what needs to die
• Journal about what you're ready to release and what you want to birth
• Set clear intention for transformation

The Death New Moon Ritual: Step by Step

Step 1: Opening and Invocation (5 minutes)

Stand before your altar. Take three deep breaths, feeling yourself become present and centered.

Light the incense and say:

"I call upon the energy of Death—
The force of transformation, the power of endings,
The inevitability of change, the promise of rebirth.
I enter this sacred space willing to let die what must die,
So that what wants to be born can emerge.
May I have the courage to face endings,
And the wisdom to trust in rebirth.
So it is."

Step 2: The Death Ceremony (10 minutes)

Take your paper and pen. Write down everything that needs to die in your life:

• Relationships that have ended or need to end
• Jobs, careers, or professional identities that are dead
• Beliefs, patterns, or behaviors that no longer serve
• Old versions of yourself that you've outgrown
• Dreams that will never manifest and must be released
• Attachments, expectations, or identities that limit you

Read each item aloud, saying after each one: "I acknowledge your death. I release you. I let you go."

When complete, fold the paper and hold it to your heart. Say:

"These things are dead or dying.
I have carried them too long.
I honor what they were,
I grieve what they meant,
But I release them now.
May they return to the void,
May they become compost for new growth,
May their death make space for my rebirth."

Step 3: Lighting the Candle of Death (3 minutes)

Light the black candle and say:

"I light the flame of Death—
The ending of what was,
The dissolution of old forms,
The destruction that precedes creation.
I accept that all things must end,
I embrace the transformation that comes through loss,
I trust the wisdom of death and decay.
What must die, let it die.
What must end, let it end.
I am ready."

Step 4: The Burning (5 minutes)

Hold the paper with your list of deaths over the black candle flame. As it catches fire, place it in the fireproof bowl and watch it burn.

As it burns, visualize everything on that list dissolving, transforming, returning to ash. Feel the release. Feel the grief if it comes. Feel the liberation. Let it all burn.

Say:

"As this paper burns to ash,
So these things die and transform.
I release them to the fire,
I return them to the void,
I let them go completely.
They are dead. They are gone.
I am free."

Sit in silence as the paper burns completely to ash. This is the death. This is the ending. This is the void.

Step 5: The Rebirth Declaration (10 minutes)

Take a fresh piece of paper. Now write what you want to manifest—but frame it as rebirth, not addition:

Instead of: "I want a new relationship"
Write: "I am reborn as someone who attracts healthy, balanced love."

Instead of: "I want a new job"
Write: "I am reborn into my true professional calling and purpose."

Instead of: "I want to be happy"
Write: "I am reborn as my authentic self, free from what no longer serves."

Your manifestation must include:

• Who you're becoming (not just what you're getting)
• How you're transforming (not just what's changing externally)
• What's being born from the ashes of what died
• Your new identity after the death-rebirth cycle

Read your rebirth declaration aloud three times, with conviction and power.

Step 6: Lighting the Candle of Rebirth (3 minutes)

Light the white candle from the black candle (rebirth emerges from death) and say:

"I light the flame of Rebirth—
The beginning of what will be,
The formation of new forms,
The creation that follows destruction.
From the ashes of what died,
I rise transformed and renewed.
I am not who I was.
I am who I am becoming.
I am reborn."

Step 7: The Phoenix Rising (5 minutes)

Stand before your altar. Close your eyes and visualize yourself as a phoenix—burning in the flames of transformation, dying completely to ash, then rising renewed and transformed from those ashes.

Feel yourself being reborn. You are not the same person who began this ritual. You have died and been reborn. You are new.

Place your hands over your heart and say:

"I am the phoenix rising from the ashes.
I am the seed sprouting from decay.
I am the dawn emerging from darkness.
I have died to who I was.
I am reborn to who I am becoming.
I embrace this transformation.
I trust this rebirth.
I am new. I am free. I am alive.
So it is."

Step 8: Sealing and Closing (4 minutes)

Hold the black tourmaline in your left hand and clear quartz in your right. Feel the energy of protection and clarity moving through you.

Gaze at the Death card and say:

"Thank you, Death, for your transformative power.
Thank you for teaching me to let go.
Thank you for the courage to face endings.
Thank you for the promise of rebirth.
I carry your wisdom forward into my new life.
The ritual is complete, but the transformation continues.
So it is."

Let both candles burn completely if safe, or extinguish them knowing the work is done.

Take the ashes from the burned paper and either bury them in earth (returning to source) or scatter them to the wind (releasing completely).

Post-Ritual Actions

Death manifestation requires aligned action after the ceremony:

Immediate Actions (within 24 hours):

• End one thing you declared dead in the ritual
• Take one action as your reborn self
• Journal about how you feel different after the death-rebirth
• Release one physical item that represents what died

Ongoing Actions (throughout the lunar cycle):

• Daily check-in: Am I living as my reborn self or reverting to old patterns?
• Weekly review: What's continuing to die? What's continuing to be born?
• Continue releasing what's dead—don't cling to corpses
• Embody your new identity consistently
• Document signs of rebirth and transformation

Signs Your Ritual is Working

You'll know the Death ritual is manifesting when you notice:

• Old patterns naturally falling away
• Feeling genuinely different, transformed
• New opportunities aligned with your rebirth emerging
• Reduced attachment to what you released
• Increased clarity about who you're becoming
• Synchronicities related to transformation and renewal
• Feeling lighter, freer, more alive
• Your new identity feeling more natural than the old one

The Constant Unification Perspective

In the Constant Unification framework, this ritual is not about asking external forces for transformation—it's about consciously participating in the death-rebirth cycle that's always occurring. When you ritually die to old forms and consciously choose rebirth, you align with the universal law of impermanence and transformation.

Death teaches that you cannot manifest the new while clinging to the old. The universe cannot give you what you desire if your hands are full of what you no longer need. This ritual creates space—through death, through release, through letting go—for what wants to emerge. Manifestation is not addition; it's transformation. And transformation requires death.