Help..

[mol]

We are doing a study of the Book of Lies in the Magick forum and i have stumbled upon a connection in Chapter 0 (possibly) with the World card...

What does the world card mean to all of you?

[rantnraven]

Neither of my decks contain such a card. Do you know what deck is being referred to here?

Rant

[Emy]

The world card as in the universe card?

[reanna]

The World:

Reaching a natural conclusion.

Keywords: The end. Attainment.Culmination.Fulfillment. Harmony. Well-being. The end of a phase and the start of something new. A journey's end. Ecstasy. Reaching your goal. Unity. Elation. Completeness. Wholeness. Triumph. Cosmic flow. Enlightenment. The best possible outcome.

You have reached the promised land. What you set out to achieve, has been achieved. Everything is going according to plan. A plan is progressing smoothly to reach culmination.

These were taken from Tarot Plain and simple. This pretty much sums up my view of reading the world card.

Is that sort of what you are after?

[Silver Venus]

Originally posted by Emy
The world card as in the universe card?
Yep that will be the one!

[Silver Venus]

We are discussing the world in this verse ~

The Tenth Emanation
The world.

Heres what Semele wrote ..
(I hope this is ok to repeat it here, just thought it will help in Tarot tooo!!)

Woo-Hoo I can help here!!
Here is a brief definition from Seventy eight Degrees of Wisdom that may fit in here quite well.

The World:"What can we say of an understanding, a freedom, and rapture beyond words? The unconscious known consciously, the outer self unified with the forces of life, knowledge that is not knowledge at all but a constant ecstatic dance of being - they are all true and yet not true."

I describe this card usually as enlightenment...knowing what you have been seeking, often laughing at yourself for looking so long and so hard in so many wrong places.

This book goes on to explain, briefly, the Kabbalah and its relation to the world card. It names Adam Kadmon as the original creation emanating from the unknowable God. He was pure light that broke up and later condensed into matter...us. If you follow the process outlined in the story of the major arcana you end with the world card, which is when we realise and accept that we are indeed Adam Kadmon. Ah-ha...enlightenment!!

The world dancer is also symbolic of the tree of life. The top triangle is the crown and points of the shoulders, the middle triangle the genitalia and hands, and the third triangle the crossed leg and right foot. As for the root of the tree...it is the entire universe in which we move. Only after we live through and understand each of the major arcana as stages in our spiritual development, can we even begin to grasp the meaning of the world.

Also an interesting point is how the world correlates to The Fool, whose number is 0. Both cards are very similar, in design and meaning. The world dancer is surrounded by a wreath...shaped like an 0. So for you binary geeks, theres your zero. Also these are the only two cards that are moving in the tarot. I have often pondered over The Fool being the truly wise one in the deck because he cares not for what he doesn't know, which is a lot of what I see as the realisation in the World card.


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Originally posted by mol


So...you could say it went from the Fool to the World.

Beginning to the End? Would the world be considered the end of this labor?
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Perhaps...or maybe The Fool is the beginning and the end. Because after we get to the realisation of the World...where do we go from there. How do we use this newfound knowledge. My idea of putting it to use would be to embody the spirit of The Fool. Carefree and going boldly...wherever the hell you want, with the knowledge of where you came from and where you will eventually return. There is no further need to ponder the great mysteries of life...just live it while you are here.


& what loppy wrote..
So is the Fool Nothingness? Because only the Nothingness really knows how it was created and where it will end up? So it has no need to ponder... humankind has this sort of innate curiosity, which makes me believe that that's why we can't just live, and why we'll never be The Fool

& what I said
I agree with semele on!! and take from the tarot to be as Semele said about the fool ~ The beginging and the end! Just reversed.. I believe that the world is a union (of the god and goddess), a completion of synergy and with this completion comes a new begining for growth and enlightenment.. with this comes the next chapter...

:D

Just thought youd all like to read that too :)