The World

The World is trump XXI: a dancer inside a laurel wreath, with the four living creatures (lion, bull, eagle, angel) in the corners. It is completion, wholeness, and the end of one great cycle before the next begins. The Golden Dawn gives it to Saturn, the last of the classical planets.

Uses

• Completing a project or cycle
• Celebrating achievement
• Travel and wider horizons
• Integration and wholeness

Trump

XXI

Attribution

Saturn ♄︎

Hebrew letter

Tav ת (cross, mark)

Path

32nd, Yesod to Malkuth

Thoth name

The Universe

Upright

Completion, integration, accomplishment, wholeness

Reversed

Incompletion, lack of closure, shortcuts

Key symbols

The dancer in the laurel wreath, the two wands, the four creatures in the corners

Working with it

When you finish something, set the World on a cloth with a token of what you finished. Write a short account of what you began with and what you ended with, then fold it into a circle and keep it. Mark endings so you can begin again clean.