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The World Tarot Card Meaning

The World is card XXI of the Major Arcana. Upright it speaks of completion, integration, accomplishment; reversed, of incompleteness, loose ends. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's Jungian archetype and its astrological correspondence.

The World tarot card — hand-illustrated Lunara deck
Major ArcanaEarthSaturn

Upright meaning

“Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: completion, integration, accomplishment, wholeness, success.

Reversed meaning

“Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: incompleteness, loose ends, stagnation, seeking closure.

The archetype

Individuation completed — the mandala of wholeness; the dance at the center of the four.

Astrology

Correspondence: Saturn.

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