Quote from American Heritage Dictionary:

"The act of setting free."

Description:

REDEMPTION is the time when one enterprise of life has been completed and another is approaching. It is a time of accepting, of being still, silent, while your energy recollects before spiraling outward in a new way. Seen in this Atlantean Trump are a male and a female in funeral urns. Their spirals are empty and like sea shells are cast upon the shore. Between them is a third figure which symbolizes a new birth, the potential Being which their union created, a symbol for the coming race of humanity to be born under the Fifth Sun. Above the centering pyramid the Serplion of psychic energy whirls ecstatically. It represents here the energy circling inward in preparation to evoke the new cycle, the new life form.

Interpreted use:

Time for relaxation and acceptance of yourself as you are now. Time to witness joyfully and without ego attachments the truth of one's own Self.

Reversed (card received upside down):

Death is present here unless you float with tides and time. Understand the movement; go with it lest you sink.