Rider–Waite tarot card guide
Explore how this card reads in both its upright and reversed orientations.
Upright
The World represents wholeness, completion, and fulfillment. This card suggests that you have successfully integrated all aspects of your being, and that you are now ready to share your gifts, talents, and abilities with the world. It can also indicate that you have access to a deep well of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, and that you are being guided by forces of wholeness, completion, and fulfillment.
Drawing The World could mean that you have successfully integrated all aspects of your being, and that you are now ready to share your gifts, talents, and abilities with the world. It may suggest that you are being called to cultivate wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, and to access the wholeness, completion, and fulfillment that is available to you. Alternatively, it could be telling you to trust the universe, believe in the power of self-trust, intuition, and inner guidance, and embrace the possibility, potentiality, and transformation that awaits you.
Reversed
In reverse, The World may indicate a lack of integration or wholeness, a sense of incompletion or unfulfillment, or a resistance to sharing your gifts, talents, and abilities with the world. It can also represent a lack of wisdom, knowledge, or understanding, or a fear of wholeness, completion, and fulfillment. This card may be telling you to trust your instincts, believe in the power of your inner wisdom and guidance, and cultivate creativity, inspiration, and dreamwork.
When answering a question, The World suggests that the answer lies in integrating all aspects of your being, sharing your gifts, talents, and abilities with the world, and cultivating wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. It may indicate that you are being called to access the wholeness, completion, and fulfillment that is available to you, and to trust the universe, believe in the power of self-trust, intuition, and inner guidance, and embrace the possibility, potentiality, and transformation that awaits you.
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