Halloween Tarot - World
By Kipling West; book by Karin Lee
US Games Systems, Inc.

The World --The Wheel doubled, plus one.

There's a lot of stuff on this card. A black cat (who appears on *every* card) dances in the heart of the World Tree, wreathed by bones and ivy. The tree has a few scattered autumn leaves still remaining on it. At the top sits a smiling pumpkin, and at the trunk is the grafitti "Nidhogg was here." In the four corners are a (now-infamous) red-eyed eel, a bat, a gila monster and a scorpion. Also, within the heart of the tree, are the full moon and the planet Saturn.

The book says: "The World card communicates that things have come full circle, you've achieved your goals, and now the cycles will begin again. The cat is captured mid-dance to show that this is a card of movement."

It's weird, 'cause there's so much going on in this card, but I get a feeling for it as an entity. Everything about it is a mystery, a puzzlement, but it comes together as One Thing. Compared to Rider Waite, one could say that the cat represents the Anima Mundi. But I see it differently, as if the bones frame the face, the moon and cat's head are the eyes, Saturn the mouth, and the trunk and branches the neck and hair. Everything else, represented by the four creatures, revolves around it. The cat is a cat-shaped hole in the Universe. (I would say, my cat is missing. But is he really? He still exists, somewhere, even if just as dust. Nonetheless, I still have a cat-shaped hole in my world.)

The Koontz novel I just finished speaks of the world as "the round and round of all that is." The World includes the Wheel, as well as the unseen, unnamable Force that turns it. This Force will be with you!

One Love All Love,
Moonchild