Uprightcompletion, wholeness, accomplishment, integration, travel
Reversedincompletion, lack of closure, delays, shortcuts
Upright meaning
The World stands for completion, wholeness and accomplishment. A cycle has come full circle and its lessons have been integrated. It points to success, fulfilment and sometimes travel or a wider world opening up.
Reversed meaning
Reversed, the World can show a lack of closure, unfinished business or delays before completion. It can also suggest looking for shortcuts instead of finishing the journey.
What the card shows
A dancing figure wrapped in a sash floats inside a large wreath, holding a wand in each hand. In the four corners are an angel, an eagle, a bull and a lion.
As your card of the day
A cycle is coming full circle. Celebrate how far you have come and enjoy a sense of completion. New horizons await.
“I celebrate my journey and feel whole.”
Celebrate one recent achievement, however small.
Questions
What does The World mean in tarot?
The World stands for completion, wholeness and accomplishment. A cycle has come full circle and its lessons have been integrated. It points to success, fulfilment and sometimes travel or a wider world opening up.
What does The World reversed mean?
Reversed, the World can show a lack of closure, unfinished business or delays before completion. It can also suggest looking for shortcuts instead of finishing the journey.
Is The World a yes or no card?
Yes. Yes; success and completion.
Card pictures: the 1909 deck by Pamela Colman Smith (public domain). Meanings based on A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), rewritten in modern language. For inspiration and reflection only.