The World shows a dancer wrapped in a laurel wreath, surrounded by the four living creatures. It is completion, fulfillment and wholeness: a cycle ends successfully, the goal is reached, and the world opens to you.
Completion: the circle closed, the work fulfilled.
Waite’s keywords (1911): Assured success, recompense, a voyage, a road, emigration, change of place.
Reversed
Reversed, the cycle is not quite closed: delays, an unfinished goal, lack of closure, or shortcuts that leave something undone.
A cycle not quite closed, a last step still untaken.
Waite’s keywords (1911): Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.
In love
Upright Fulfillment in love, a complete relationship; marriage, long-term union.
Reversed A relationship that does not reach its completion; something is missing.
In work
Upright Success, achievement, completion of an important project; international work.
Reversed A project almost finished; delays; one last step.
In money
Upright Financial goals reached; stability and fulfillment.
Reversed Goals not yet reached; finish what you started.
At home and in the family
Upright Harmony and completeness at home; a happy family; travel.
Reversed Something unfinished in the family.
On your path
Upright Unity with the whole, spiritual fulfillment; the journey of the Fool is complete.
Reversed You are close to completion; do not give up now.
Its counsel
Upright Celebrate: you have arrived. Then begin the next cycle.
Reversed Finish what you started, then you can move on.
Correspondences
- Arcana
- Major Arcana, card 21
- Element
- Earth
- Number
- 21
Dreams that carry this card
The Major Arcana
The Fool · The Magician · The High Priestess · The Empress · The Emperor · The Hierophant · The Lovers · The Chariot · Strength · The Hermit · Wheel of Fortune · Justice · The Hanged Man · Death · Temperance · The Devil · The Tower · The Star · The Moon · The Sun · Judgement