The World: tarot meaning, upright and reversed

A dancing figure within a wreath is surrounded by four beings at the corners.

Upright

completion · integration

Recognise what has come together and bring a cycle to a considered close.

Reversed

unfinished work · incomplete closure

A final detail or unacknowledged lesson may stand between apparent success and real completion.

In a reading

The position gives this card a particular task: a description of the situation, a challenge, or guidance. Read its image and meaning alongside the other cards and the question that brought them together.

Golden Dawn correspondence

Planet: Saturn. This is the attribution in Book T.

Sources

A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot. These notes are original interpretations of the Waite–Smith imagery, informed by that text.