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Major Arcana XXI

The World

Culmination, integration and belonging

  • culmination
  • integration
  • membership
Card of three cats moving inside an oval laurel wreath with red ribbons, surrounded by a winged feline, an eagle, a bull and a lion
Major Arcana XXIThe World

Reading the card

Closing a cycle allows you to recognize everything that is already part of you.

The World celebrates an integration: experience, limits, links and learning find a common form without losing their differences. It does not demand a perfect ending; invites you to recognize what is completed, take your place and prepare for the next beginning.

The World closes the sequence within a crown and surrounds it with four presences that provide stability. Completion does not mean that everything is resolved, but rather that an experience has reached a form that can be recognized and shared. Take inventory of what you have learned, be grateful for the help, and decide what is left out of the new cycle. Celebrating closure avoids immediately moving on to another goal and allows the achievement to become a conscious part of your story.

Documented iconography

Symbols to look slowly.

We separate the motifs inherited from the Rider-Waite-Smith system from any artistic decision of Cat Omens.

  1. RWS Tradition

    The laurel wreath

    The oval surrounds the scene as a culmination that integrates the route and keeps continuity open.

    The Pictorial Key to the Tarot · Part II
  2. RWS Tradition

    The four beings

    The corner figures bring together different qualities within a stable and plural totality.

    The Pictorial Key to the Tarot · Part II

Origin

What we inherit and what we interpret.

The symbolic structure belongs to a published tradition; the reading and the feline adaptation are an editorial creation of Cat Omens.

Reference system
Rider-Waite-Smith
Editorial layer
Original Cat Omens