A comet with an enormous tail streaks across the winter sky at night, outshining the stars. The Comet card brings dire warnings or devastation.
Upright Meaning
- Person. A serious person with a gloomy outlook, perhaps carrying bad news.
- Creature or Trap. A creature regarded as an ill omen, or signs that a dire creature approaches; alternatively, a trap marked by clear signs, perhaps surrounded by the corpses of its victims.
- Place. A place with a connection to astronomical events: perhaps an observatory or a meteorite's crater.
- Treasure. A treasure that carries a curse, or one whose power is destined to be used for destructive ends.
- Situation. A crisis about to spiral out of control.
Reversed Meaning
- Person. A person who is grieving or delights in the suffering of others.
- Creature or Trap. The destruction left in the wake of a rampaging creature, or smaller creatures fleeing from a larger one.
- Place. A ruin where a terrible event occurred in the past and that might now be haunted.
- Treasure. . A treasure formed or shaped by disaster, bloodstained or haunted by former owners: alternatively, something good arising from a bad situation.
- Situation. The calm after a devastating storm: a situation where people are reeling from awful news or events.