XXI
The World
The World tarot card meaning
Major Arcana · XXI
completion · wholeness · travel
Upright meaning
The circle closes. The World is arrival — a cycle genuinely finished, integrated, and often marked by distance travelled.
Reversed meaning
Almost there. Something is unfinished and it is the last few per cent that count.
Love
A relationship reaching a settled, whole place.
Career
A project completes and opens the next door.
Advice
Finish it properly before you start the next thing.
Where it sits in the deck
The World is card XXI of the Major Arcana, the twenty-two trumps that mark the turning points of a life. Read alongside its neighbours it forms part of the Fool's Journey, the story the deck tells when laid out in order.
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