The World upright
The dancer at the centre of the wreath is bound by it and free within it. The four creatures of Ezekiel - bull, lion, eagle, angel - mark the corners.
Whatever you started in the Fool's first step has come full round. Integration. The work is done.
Pause to feel it before the next Fool's leap.
The World reversed
Reversed, completion is being deferred - one last knot still tied, one last loose end to walk through.
Almost there. Don't quit ten metres from the finish.
Keywords
- completion
- integration
- wholeness
- fulfilment
- cycle
Where this reading comes from
Meaning paraphrased from A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), which is in the public domain - reworded rather than reproduced.
Common questions
- What does The World mean?
- Completion, the cycle whole and ready to begin again. The dancer at the centre of the wreath is bound by it and free within it. The four creatures of Ezekiel - bull, lion, eagle, angel - mark the corners.
- What does The World mean reversed?
- Reversed, completion is being deferred - one last knot still tied, one last loose end to walk through.
- Is The World a good card to draw?
- The World is one of the twenty-two Major Arcana, which mark structural turns rather than day-to-day detail. Tarot convention treats no card as simply good or bad - the reading depends on the question and the position it falls in.
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