Card 21

The World

Brief Description

The World symbolizes a life lived in harmony with Nature and the materialization of conscious spirit, representing the unification of forces and the culmination of effort. It signifies success, opportunity, the completion of cycles, and both spiritual and material wealth, bringing health, fertility, joy, and enlightened existence. Reversed, it suggests that success or completion is imminent but delayed, that the desired life has not yet been achieved, or that the cycle remains incomplete. In magickal practice the card empowers spells for success, wealth, good fortune, mood-lifting, and environmental healing, and it emphasizes homecoming and integration.

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Description

Symbol of a life lived in harmony with Nature in all her aspects, the World is an ideal often pursued: to adapt and evolve as spiritual beings perfectly assimilated to life here on earth as well as in the hereafter. While the Fool represents the spirit unencumbered by physical form or self-awareness, the World is conscious spirit materialized. It is the unification of forces, the culmination of energy expended to do work. It is success and opportunity. It is the goddess of creation, where it all began and to whence we all return. The World is home, and you can hold it in your heart and in your hands.

Divinatory Meanings

Divine contentment; good fortune; success; fate comes full circle; a positive, destined, or needed change; spiritual and material wealth; a cycle; health; fertility; joy; a victory; enlightened existence; opportunity.

Reversed

Success is imminent but will be delayed; the desired life has not yet been achieved; a temporary or mild misfortune; the cycle has not been completed.

Magickal Uses

Adds power to any spell, great for magick to bring success, wealth, good fortune, and opportunity, and excellent for mood-lifting magick and environmental healing spells.

Visual Description

A dark-skinned woman with curly hair floats centrally, nude except for a flowing ribbon of blue water that wraps around her body. She holds a short wand aloft in one hand and a sprig of leaves in the other while her legs are gently crossed. An oval laurel wreath with berries frames her figure. Various corner emblems appear: a white daisy with a yellow center, a circular sun-and-moon device at the top, a green leaf with a black sigil, an orange maple leaf with a glyph, and a white snowflake with a black emblem; a banner at the base reads "21 • WORLD."

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