Comparative Tarot

In the Motherpeace, a woman dances in the center of the card, holding a tambourine in one hand and a flaming torch in the other. Human bodies form a circle around the outside of the card and a row of flowers forms a line similar to the outside of the circle.

LWB: All the universe is a dance of energies, Maya-Shakti, a movement of creative forces in us and through us. The World card signifies that the personality is no longer blinded and confused by identification with what is not real. True liberation and freedom are felt within the individual and the group. The Fool has grown up into a woman of the world. Leading a spiral dance, she is followed by her circle of family and friends. She skips through a chain of peyote buttons and flowers. These sacred plants part to let her by. She's come a long way. It no longer matters to her how she looks, or that her clothes are torn. She takes her place among the children of the earth.

Divinatory Meaning:

Upright - The World is breaking free into a new cycle. The old is completed and many new things are now possible, since she has done her work. She knows and loves herself; all her facets are in harmony. She may feel expanded and omnipotent because a major cycle of her life is completed and a new doorway opens.

Oriented Left - She is moving toward completion and there may be disbelief that the work is done, especially if it's been difficult .

Oriented Right - She wants to be done with the past and move onto a new life.

Reversed - The World doesn't yet realize the magnitude of ending this cycle in her life. She may be unaware of where she is, so she doesn't realize that she's completed something. She might feel like holding onto the old familiar ways for a while longer. In time she will become comfortable and begin again as the Fool in the world where everything is possible.

Lots of information there. Though the book only has a feminine pronoun, it's just for simplicity. Substitute "him" anywhere you'd like. Hmm... the books really say it all. This is a card of synthesis, of integration. New insights.

kerry