The World card

Every ending is a new beginning.

Supporting / Blocking Tarot Card

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The card supports processes of completion with the promise of a new beginning. It represents a state of wholeness and perfection where the seeker concludes a process of learning and action. This ending embodies a challenge for continued growth from a higher spiritual level.

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The Meaning of The Card

The World card represents achieving completeness, the end of a process. It signifies the conclusion of a journey that began with the seeker, evolved into an apprentice, and culminated in mastery. The card represents mastery over all realms, a high level of awareness, and the ability to realize and fulfill one’s potential.

The World card: The Meaning of The Symbols

Card Symbols	Symbol Meaning
Eagle	Speed, agility, power, patience, a high perspective, hard work, achieving goals.
Youth	Youthful energy, growth, innocence, and optimism.
Body	The body is in a dancing motion, symbolizing flow. The legs form a cross, symbolizing balance between matter and spirit, reminiscent of the leg position of the Hanged Man.
Wreath	The oval wreath of leaves surrounding the figure symbolizes recognition of the limits and boundaries of matter, hinting at an embryo in the womb, a symbol of future birth. The card’s illumination and the green wreath indicate growth and renewal. The wreath also symbolizes a circle, completeness, infinity, harmony, victory, new beginnings, endings, health, and beauty.
Naked Woman	Sexuality, openness.
Two Wands	The two wands she holds symbolize mastery of knowledge and its manifestation in the material world. Thought materializes through action and effort in the physical world. The wands also represent authority, support, spiritual power, desires, and initiative.
Veil	A purple veil, the color of the third eye chakra, symbolizes intuition and insight into the unseen. The purple color also represents protection and covering. The difference in the veil colors between the Sun card and the World card symbolizes the evolution of consciousness.
Light Blue Background	Sky, spirituality, infinite possibilities, eternity.
Clouds	Power, transience, acting as a barrier, renewal.
Bull	Physical strength, masculine power, stability, burden-bearing, fertility.
Lion	Leadership, courage, confidence, ability to lead, balance between power and physical strength, responsibility, vitality.
Red Ribbon	The red ribbons hint at the symbol of infinity. They are placed beneath the woman’s feet and above her head, symbolizing the perfection between matter and spirit.

Mythology

Like The Hermit card, The World card is represented by Chronos, the god of time. While in The Hermit card time brings patience, in The World card Chronos, who is bound beneath the earth and connected to the material world, represents the laws of time and decay. He measures the time and seasons and symbolizes the cycle of sowing, sprouting, blooming, fruit, withering, and decay—a cycle of life, completion, and new beginnings.

Representation of the Card in a Reading

The card represents the missing link. In The Judgement card, the person reaches enlightenment; so why is there another card in the Major Arcana? After enlightenment, The Fool leaps into the abyss. He does not crash at the bottom but loses his physical form and becomes an energetic entity. To maintain enlightenment, one must start The Fool’s journey anew. Writing one book can be a metaphor for enlightenment, but to remain enlightened, one must continue to write and develop. The goal has been achieved, the book is written; a person, or a writer, who does not continue to write and evolve will lose their acclaim. Development can be progress within the same field or the beginning of something new. This is a card of complete successes and closing circles.

It is important to remember that this is a Major Arcana card, representing the realm of the spirit. The querent’s soul is in a place of completion, a place of enlightenment. To manifest this card, the person must start the process anew and continue to grow within it.