The World - Meaning of The World Card in Tarot Cards

The title of The World Tarot card is, ‘The Great One of the Night of Time’. The image seen on the card is that of a demonstration of the quadrature of the circle. This card not only represents the world, but the universe. It should be remembered that to the ancients, Saturn represented the confines of the Solar system. They had no means of measuring either Uranus or Neptune. To them, therefore, Saturn passing through the spiral path of the Zodiac, marked at its cardinal points by the symbols of the Kerubim forming the Cross, was a comprehensive glyph of the whole. Thus, in this card we find a synthesis of the whole Taro or Rota.

The colours associated with The World Tarot card includes the colours of the spectrum and those of the elements, but they are placed against the indigo and black of a Saturn, with the white gleam of the Stars shining in the darkness. The World Tarot card signifies the matter in hind which is the subject of any question that has been asked. Things that can be associated with this card are matter, synthesis, kingdom. This card usually denotes the actual subject of the question, and therefore depends entirely on the accompanying cards.

The World Tarot card signifies the end of an existing phase. It depicts the beginning of a new phase as a seed within. It may also be associated with change of a place like moving to different country or region. This card’s meaning usually depends much on the position of the cards which surround it and their general meaning. Usually it refers to the matter concerning which the question is made. This card can be associated with success and a favorable issue to circumstances.

The meaning of The World Tarot card can be best explained as : The 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.

It has more than one message on the macro cosmic 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. One more such account says that it represents the absolute. The figure has been said to stand for Truth, which is, however, more properly allocated to the seventeenth card.