{"id":2808,"date":"2020-08-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vekkesind.com\/?p=2808"},"modified":"2023-05-21T02:21:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T08:21:30","slug":"world-tarot-card-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vekkesind.com\/world-tarot-card-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"World Tarot Card Meaning – 35 Interpretations!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The World rings in at number twenty-one in the Major Arcana, preceded by the intensity of Judgement. The journey has been marked by foolish beginnings, calls to action, chaos, healing, uncertainty, and growth. Now we stand at the end, looking down upon all of our worldly achievements and struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A naked woman dances, surrounded by a laurel wreath, an honor awarded to the classic poets and scholars, its circular shape representing cycles and wholeness. The garland is tied with two red ribbons that form infinity symbols. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vulnerability of the cosmic dancer\u2019s skin is draped in purple cloth, a symbol of royalty, wisdom, and divinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She looks over her shoulder at the past, the wands in her hands reminding us of the Magician. The manifestations he once promised us are finally coming to fruition as we are now ready to receive the rewards of the Great Work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this sense, the World is the embodiment of success, skill mastery, closure, natural perfection, and completion: the realization of everything we have ever dreamt of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the Hindu god Shiva, the woman (who is sometimes considered an androgynous figure, the two opposites united) performs the cosmic dance, perpetually moving and overflowing with energy and perfect unity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new world is created with her every move and a final hint is suggested: the only observable divinity is within \u2014 nature perceives God in itself. The ellipse around her forms an egg, symbolic of the soul but also resembling the number zero. Look how the symbols come to life in emptiness and infinity simultaneously!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lion, bull, cherub, and eagle surround her, reminding us of The Wheel Of Fortune that once graced us with the constant ups and downs of life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These animals serve as our guides as we finish one journey and begin another, bringing to mind the balance of the four elements, the four cardinal directions, the four corners of the universe, and the four fixed signs of the zodiac \u2014 Leo, Taurus, Aquarius, and Scorpio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the symbolism of the four divine watchers in the clouds doesn\u2019t stop there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In psychological terms, they represent the four functions of the self (feeling, thinking, intuition, and sensation). Now that the unconscious has stepped into the light, it is being integrated and becoming conscious, crystallizing the quaternity in the center of the personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In religious iconography, the depiction of these celestial beings (hayyoth <\/em>in Jewish), often portrayed as winged cherubim, is called a tetramorph. As we\u2019ve mentioned in the Wheel, they represent the four evangelists, but their origins are more ancient than Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The four creatures are also the guardians of the keys to the Minor Arcana, the final purified incarnations of the Tarot\u2019s archetypal energies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n