21-The World – Reversed Golden Deck

Your Chosen Card – The World Reversed Golden Deck

When reversed, the World card suggests that you are somehow hindered or delayed in your journey toward an important destination. Perhaps you are unaware of your own limits and have failed to set realistic goals. You need to examine and confront what is holding you back so that you can resume your forward movement. Will your current attitude or behavior result in expulsion from the Garden of Eden?

Keywords Reversed: Lack of commitment, failure to pursue one’s dream, aimlessness, stagnation, not establishing a goal, an unattainable ambition, weak boundaries, paradise lost.

Key XXI: The Universe (the Universe)
Myths/Archetypes: The Second Coming. The New Jerusalem. The Garden of Eden. Paradise Regained. The Sign of the Cross.
Astrology: Saturn, the outermost visible planet. (Saturn rules Capricorn and Aquarius.) The four figures surrounding the central wreath in this card represent the four fixed signs of the zodiac: Taurus the bull, Leo the lion, Scorpio the scorpion and eagle, Aquarius the water bearer.
Numerology: 3 (Empress) = 1 + 2 (Hanged Man) = 2 + 1 (the World)

Mathers: Completion, good reward; (R) evil reward, or recompense.

When The World is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If The World is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The World is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your reversed card reading for The World using cards from the Golden Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.


Here are some snippets from a few of my favorite books

Complete Book of Tarot
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Complete Book of Tarot: Although tarot originated as a card game and work of art for wealthy Italian families, it may have been used for a rudimentary form of divination as early as the sixteenth century. The Italian nobility of the 1500s played a game called tarrochi appropriation which players drew cards at random, using the images on those cards to inspire the writing of poetic verses about each other’s destiny. These cards were called sortes, an Italian word meaning fate, lot, destiny, or chance. Over time the tarot became a tool for divination.

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: If astrology is not your cup of tea, Carolyn Cushing of the Art of Change Tarot website offers a weekly three-card ‘Path-Practice-Posture’ layout along similar lines. 16 Carolyn calls her layout the ‘Soul Practices’ or ‘Sacred Practices’ spread. Her preferred deck for this spread is the Gaian Tarot by Joanna Powell Colbert.

Elements of the Psychic World: The Gaia hypothesis does seem to support the idea that the earth has one shared mind and that all minds are connected, even without people being aware of it. According to this theory the earth as a living organism will do whatever is necessary to ensure its survival. The idea that it consciously controls people’s thoughts sounds absurd, but it is conceivable that people’s minds may respond to the earth’s needs in a unified way, just as the human body’s nervous system responds to stimuli without the brain being aware of it. In other words, human minds may respond and follow trends or thought patterns without making a conscious decision to do so. And some people believe this could help explain intuition or psychic awareness.

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Elements of the Psychic World: The Gaia hypothesis does seem to support the idea that the earth has one shared mind and that all minds are connected, even without people being aware of it. According to this theory the earth as a living organism will do whatever is necessary to ensure its survival. The idea that it consciously controls people’s thoughts sounds absurd, but it is conceivable that people’s minds may respond to the earth’s needs in a unified way, just as the human body’s nervous system responds to stimuli without the brain being aware of it. In other words, human minds may respond and follow trends or thought patterns without making a conscious decision to do so. And some people believe this could help explain intuition or psychic awareness.