Major Arcana · XXI
The World Tarot Card Meaning
- Arcana
- Major Arcana
- Number
- XXI · No. 21
- Yes or no
- Yes · Reversed: Maybe
Upright meaning
Completion · achievement · wholeness
A journey comes to a beautiful close. Enjoy what you have achieved and move out into a wider world.
Reversed meaning
Unfinished · lack of closure · delays
You're almost there, but one last piece is missing. Don't postpone the ending — tie up the loose ends.
In a yes-or-no reading
- UprightYesThe card says things are moving the way you hope.
- ReversedMaybeIt isn't settled yet. It could depend on conditions or timing.
Its place in the Major Arcana
The 22 cards of life's big currents and turning points. They are read as one person's journey from 0, The Fool, to 21, The World, and the more of them in a spread, the more the matter goes beyond personal choice.
Cards 15 to 21 are the stage of becoming one with a larger world through collapse and awakening, arriving at hope, rebirth and completion.
The 22 Major Arcana
- The Fool
- The Magician
- The High Priestess
- The Empress
- The Emperor
- The Hierophant
- The Lovers
- The Chariot
- Strength
- The Hermit
- Wheel of Fortune
- Justice
- The Hanged Man
- Death
- Temperance
- The Devil
- The Tower
- The Star
- The Moon
- The Sun
- Judgement
- The World
Draw your own
Now that you know the card, think of one question and shuffle the deck yourself. Which of the 78 cards comes up is decided the moment you shuffle.
Meanings follow the widely used Rider–Waite tradition, and the pictures are simple designs drawn for this site. Please treat tarot as a light-hearted aid to reflection.