Printed from tarotall.com – keep this as a study reference for The World.
Major Arcana · XXI
The World
completion
fulfillment
wholeness
fulfillment
wholeness
Upright
A cycle fully completed, bringing wholeness and well-earned fulfillment.
Reversed
Incompleteness, or a final step still left undone.
Yes or no?
Upright
Yes
It is a completion card, which means the thing actually finishes.
Yes
It is a completion card, which means the thing actually finishes.
Reversed
Yes, not yet
The World is a yes card: it is a completion card, which means the thing actually finishes. It came up reversed, and in a real shuffle that is the exception rather than the norm, so read it as the deck going out of its way to say: the yes is real, and something is sitting on top of it.
Yes, not yet
The World is a yes card: it is a completion card, which means the thing actually finishes. It came up reversed, and in a real shuffle that is the exception rather than the norm, so read it as the deck going out of its way to say: the yes is real, and something is sitting on top of it.
Card Imagery
A dancing figure is surrounded by a laurel wreath, while four fixed-sign creatures watch from each corner of the sky.
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