The World Tarot Year Card

A year of The World

The World holds a year of arrival. A long piece of work, a stage of life or a long road comes full circle, and you can see what it was all for. It is a year for celebrating, integrating and preparing for the next beginning.

What the year asks

It asks you to recognise what you have completed and let it be finished. The shadow is refusing the ending, starting the next thing before honouring this one.

Sitting with it

Make a record of what this cycle gave you. Mark the completion in some way before you move on.

Questions for the year

• What have I completed that I haven't acknowledged?
• What did this cycle teach me?
• What do I want to carry into the next one?

Who has The World as a year card

Under Greer's method The World is nobody's year card between 2000 and 2099. It last fell in 1990, and it returns in 2156.

The card itself

The circle closed, and the dance held lightly at its center.

If it is also your birth card

The World is also a birth card for some people. In the year it comes round as your year card, the theme you were born with is the one the year brings up.

Birth cards that include The World

• The World and The Empress · 21 · 3

Every year card

• The Magician · 1
• The High Priestess · 2
• The Empress · 3
• The Emperor · 4
• The Hierophant · 5
• The Lovers · 6
• The Chariot · 7
• Strength · 8
• The Hermit · 9
• Wheel of Fortune · 10
• Justice · 11
• The Hanged Man · 12
• Death · 13
• Temperance · 14
• The Devil · 15
• The Tower · 16
• The Star · 17
• The Moon · 18
• The Sun · 19
• Judgement · 20
• The World · 21
• The Fool · 22

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