21. The World

The End (positive)

Upright

Fulfillment, completion, self-actualization.

Reversed

Delayed triumph, denying significance.

Element: Earth

The final card in the Major Arcana shows a dancer surrounded by symbols of the four elements/suits. This is a card about completion and fulfillment. It means command of the energies of the other suits. It can mean great potential if drawn in the past position, or it can mean self-actualization and ascendance. This is the end of the cycle, which restarts with The Fool (since in understanding everything, we get that we know nothing).

When reversed, The World indicats delays and denial. You may have a triumph at hand, but it is delayed, or you may be denying the significance of events that are going on. Attainment is possible, but it isn’t happening. Why is that? Maybe we just need to wait for the world to turn.