The World is an Arcana in the Persona series. It is the twenty-first numbered and last card in the Major Arcana, numbered XXI21, following the Judgement.
A Tarot de Marseille World cardA Rider-Waite-Smith World card
In tarot, the World is the last of the 21 trump cards, which are called "Major Arcana" in esoteric usage. The imagery originates from Italian tarocchi decks. The World card typically features a dancing woman encircled by a wreath in the center, while the four corners of the card have the four faces of the cherubim, which often represented the Four Evangelists (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) in Christian art. Another popular version of the World card depicted an angel standing atop the earth, often with four additional angels holding back the winds at the four corners of the earth (Revelation 7:1).
Arthur Edward Waite lists the following divinatory meanings in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot: "Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place. Reversed: Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence."[1]
↑"The Greater Arcana and Their Divinatory Meanings", The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1922), Arthur Edward Waite. Published by William Rider & Son Limited. (2nd ed.) p. 287.
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