Tarot · The Major Arcana
The World
- Completion
- wholeness
- arrival
The picture
A dancing figure wrapped only in a sash floats inside an oval laurel wreath, holding two wands, with an angel, an eagle, a bull and a lion in the four corners.
The meaning
The World is the last card of the Major Arcana, and the figure at its centre is dancing. The tradition reads it as completion, wholeness and a circle that closes. It stands for the feeling of having arrived, and for the freedom that grows from it. After it, the Fool sets out again from the beginning.
Reversed
Reversed, it is read as something almost finished that still needs one last step.
In love
In love it is read as a fulfilled relationship and the feeling of having arrived together.
At work
At work it stands for a successful conclusion and work that closes a circle.
As your card of the day
Something can be finished today. Look at what you have done before you start on the next thing.
The World stands for wholeness. A moment in which everything fits is possible today, even in small things.
The Major Arcana are the 22 trump cards, from the Fool at zero to the World at twenty-one. The tradition reads them as stations on a life's journey: large themes that touch everyone at some point.
Picture: Pamela Colman Smith, Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, 1909, public domain (Wikimedia Commons).