Death

Upright

ending · transformation · release

Something is finished. Naming it finished is the whole of the work; what follows cannot arrive while the old shape is being propped up.

Reversed

clinging · slow decay · fear of change

Holding the door shut on a change already underway, which usually drags it out rather than preventing it.

Why this astrology

The trumps were attributed one by one to a planet, a sign or an element, which is how Death came to carry scorpio · the ending that clears ground. Read it as that force arriving in the question.