The World: tarot card meaning

The World is card XXI of the Major Arcana, associated with the element of Earth. Drawn upright it speaks of completion, fulfillment, integration; reversed, of incompletion, delay, unfinished.

Upright meaning

completion, fulfillment, integration, milestone

A cycle ends successfully and a milestone is reached -- complete the circle, celebrate the wholeness, and hand the Fool a fresh zero.

Reversed meaning

incompletion, delay, unfinished, shortcuts

A loop is left unfinished or a shortcut taken -- the closing steps are still yours to take, and finishing well beats finishing fast.

Vedic and astrological correspondence

In a three-card reading

In the past position The World describes the current that carried you to where you are; in the present position, what is most alive in the situation now; in the future position, the direction things tend toward if nothing changes. A reading weighs it against the other two cards rather than on its own.