If you ever doubted the existence of angels, the World card may change your mind! The archangels surround the central figure in the card and provide profound support and encouragement. The central figure dances in the air, free to use all his or her tools to pursue whatever path.
The World card suggests that you have achieved a new level of selfhood. You have become adept and achieved your highest goals, or at least that is the potential that lies ahead of you. You have confidence that you can overcome obstacles and pursue your destiny confidently.
As such you have the capacity to enter into profoundly meaningful relationship with another person. You and your soul mate can fulfill spiritual aspirations together, where separately you might flounder. Whatever you choose, you can pursue your highest and best destiny.
“This state of awareness is pictured as a dance. When we dance, we move in space to a rhythm which marks out time, bringing the two together in harmony. Dance symbolizes the act of creation. Now, in The World, the self stands completely revealed in an unforgettable way.”
- Sallie Nichols
The World represents the exercise of the functions of adeptship. The adept has entered upon a process of regular psychic training by which his inner faculties are made active and accurate. Intuition is used to check reason, and the psychic senses are developed to a keenness that they can be depended on for far-reaching information not accessible in the outer world.
- C. C. Zain
I am the end and summation of all things,
The end which is without end,
Even as the beginning.
Now the burden of the instruction is this:
End and beginning are One.
- Paul Foster Case
Sources
Zain, C. C., The Sacred Tarot. Los Angeles, The Church of
Light, 1936.
Nichols, Sallie, Jung and Tarot:
An Archetypal Journey. York Beach, Maine, Samuel Weiser, 1980.
Case, Paul Foster, The Book of Tokens: 22 Meditations on the Ageless Wisdom. Los Angeles, Builder of the Adytum, 1968. Quoted with permission from Builders of the Adytum, 5101 North Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA. 90042; http://www.bota.org/. Permission to use Builders of the Adytum images in no way constitutes endorsement of the material on this site.
De Angelis, Roberto, Universal Tarot Deck. Torino, Italy: Lo Scarabeo, 2003. Lo Scarabeo has graciously granted permission for the use of the Tarot images on this site. Copying the images without their permission wuld be a violation of copyright law.
