The World
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A tarot card. Position 21 in the Major Arcana.
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Description
Rider Waite Deck
(from The Pictorial Key to Tarot by E.A.Waite)
As this final message of the Major Trumps is unchanged--and indeed unchangeable--in respect of its design, it has been partly described already regarding its deeper sense. It represents also the perfection and end of the Cosmos, the secret which is within it, the rapture of the universe when it understands itself in God. It is further the state of the soul in the consciousness of Divine Vision, reflected from the self-knowing spirit. But these meanings are without prejudice to that which I have said concerning it on the material side.
It has more than one message on the macrocosmic side and is, for example, the state of the restored world when the law of manifestation shall have been carried to the highest degree of natural perfection. But it is perhaps more especially a story of the past, referring to that day when all was declared to be good, when the morning stars sang together and all the Sons of God shouted for joy. One of the worst explanations concerning it is that the figure symbolizes the Magus when he has reached the highest degree of initiation; another account says that it represents the absolute, which is ridiculous. The figure has been said to stand for Truth, which is, however, more properly allocated to the seventeenth card. Lastly, it has been called the Crown of the Magi.
Meanings
- cosmic consciousness, dominion and slavery
- Achieve personal maturity in the awareness and acceptance of both the imaginary universes of the Self and reality.
- Achievement, success, good outcomes, but in a more complete sense than such cards as The Chariot or The Sun
- on mundane questions, it may mean "everything"
- The (good and natural) end of a cycle, the beginning of a new one at the same time
- the dance of life
Correspondences
- Links Yesod to Malkuth as path number 32 of the Tree of Life
- Colour indigo
- the planet Saturn, the alchemical element of Earth
- The direction Central point (from the Sepher Yetzirah)
- Yetziratic Intelligence - the Administrative intelligence
- Musical note A (Paul Case)
- Hebrew letter Taw meaning Cross or Mark and also the number 400
- Organic Time - Timewave Zero Transpersonal awareness of Pop Culture awaits us on the edge of timewave zero.
