21-The World – Upright Golden Deck

Your Chosen Card – The World Upright Golden Deck

When upright, the World card highlights an important goal or destination in your life. You may be approaching the completion of a significant ambition or perhaps you are about to embark on a journey to achieve a cherished desire. In any case, you are dealing with a major stage in your development, and you will need all the resources at your disposal to bring matters to a successful conclusion. Just as Saturn, the last planet visible to the naked eye, marks the outermost visible boundary of the solar system, the World trump marks the end of the Fool’s journey toward enlightenment. Arriving at this card is a sign of completion, enlightenment, and success. You are returning to the Garden of Eden.

Keywords Upright: Culmination, wholeness, completion, the end of the road, ‘X marks the spot,’ a successful outcome, fulfillment, reward, promotion, opportunity, a clearly defined goal, a trip, one’s destiny, going for the gold, reaching one’s destination, knowing your limits, paradise regained, a journey to a desired location, return to the Source.

Key XXI: The World (the Universe)
Myths/Archetypes: The Second Coming. The New Jerusalem. The Garden of Eden. Paradise Regained. The Sign of the Cross.
Astrology: Saturn, the outermost visible planet. (Saturn rules Capricorn and Aquarius.) The four figures surrounding the central wreath in this card represent the four fixed signs of the zodiac: Taurus the bull, Leo the lion, Scorpio the scorpion and eagle, Aquarius the water bearer.
Numerology: 3 (Empress) = 1 + 2 (Hanged Man) = 2 + 1 (the World)

Golden Dawn: Synthesis, world, kingdom; the matter inquired about, hence what the World signifies will depend largely on the accompanying cards.

When The World is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If The World is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The World is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for The World using cards from the Golden Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.


Here are some snippets from a few of my favorite books

Complete Book of Tarot
Book Details
Complete Book of Tarot: Why did God make you?’ ‘God made me to know, love, and serve him in this world.’

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: According to the Golden Dawn, several major arcana cards are associated with the element Fire and the suit of Wands. These include:

Portable Magic: All the traditional planets rule two signs each, except for the Sun and the Moon, which each rule only one sign. The planets added to modern astrology, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, have no place in the Golden Dawn correspondences for the trumps, which are based on traditional astrology.

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Portable Magic: All the traditional planets rule two signs each, except for the Sun and the Moon, which each rule only one sign. The planets added to modern astrology, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, have no place in the Golden Dawn correspondences for the trumps, which are based on traditional astrology.