Coming Full Circle
When the Tarot card for today, the World, dances its way into your day, the message is to celebrate—because you’ve reached the successful completion of a phase or chapter in your life!
The World indicates a major triumph, victory, or success in your life (the laurel wreath on the card). The final piece of the puzzle has fallen into place, and with it, you’re able to see the bigger picture, because The World suggests reaching a higher level of awareness.
While this card can suggest traveling and journeys, some of them may be more metaphorical in nature. Sometimes, it’s those inner journeys that allow us to see our outer world in ways that a trip or vacation never would.
With that in mind, The World can suggest coming full circle; you’ve arrived back at the point where you started, but you have so much more awareness about things than you did before. In this sense, The World is about reaching a state of wholeness.
This idea of wholeness is reinforced by the characters in the four corners of the card. The angel, the eagle, the lion, and the bull represent the four fixed signs in the zodiac (Aquarius, Scorpio, Leo, and Taurus, respectively) and can also represent the four aspects of our whole being: the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual.
These aspects are mentioned in Christian Scripture, in the Book of Revelation: “And the first animal was like a lion and the second animal was like a calf and the third animal had the face of a man and the fourth animal was like a flying eagle.” (Revelation 4:7)
The animals were unceasingly acknowledging the workings of the Divine. And that’s what “revelation” (higher level of awareness) is: an acknowledgment of the working of the Divine (of our own understanding) in our lives; we have been given a glimpse of the big picture, and a great mystery in our life has been solved.
As stated before, The World represents a completion of a cycle in life; an important goal has been achieved, and all the feelings and experiences that go along with it.
So, for today, find some time to enjoy what you’ve worked so hard for—and dream about possibilities for your future. For The World, much like the Book of Revelation, is all about having a vision of what’s to come.