Western Tarot symbolism
The World
The World’s dancing figure is enclosed by a garland and surrounded by four living creatures. The earlier description connects bodily joy and guarded paradise with the movement of the whole image. The final commentary interprets it as the cosmos understanding itself and the restored world. The oracle list adds reward, success, voyage, and change of place.
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In the sources
Principal account
LiteraryThe World’s dancing figure is enclosed by a garland and surrounded by four living creatures. The earlier description connects bodily joy and guarded paradise with the movement of the whole image.
Further detail
LiteraryThe final commentary interprets it as the cosmos understanding itself and the restored world. The oracle list adds reward, success, voyage, and change of place.
Context & interpretation
The active library scan carries L. W. de Laurence’s name and reproduces material associated with A. E. Waite’s Tarot exposition. Its symbolic descriptions and divinatory lists are distinct registers, and neither provides a guaranteed prediction.
Original passages
Source 1
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
and this is all her vesture. She is in the act of dancing, and has a wand in either hand. It is eloquent as an image ofOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Western Tarot symbolism; active reader leaf 24
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- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0024
- Original scan leaf
- 29
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- 29
- Current Reader position
- 24
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- Matches the reviewed Reader
Source 2
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
the secret which is within it, the rapture of the universe when it understands itself in God (Nature). It is further the state of theOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Western Tarot symbolism; active reader leaf 85
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0149-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0149-E001-P0085
- Original scan leaf
- 90
- Recorded leaf number
- 90
- Current Reader position
- 85
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
Continue exploring
Death
A rider whose passage joins mortality with transformation.
Same subject and traditionJudgment
A trumpet’s summons calls the figures from their tombs.
Same subject and traditionJustice
Accountability according to deeds, distinguished from spiritual election.
Same subject and traditionStrength
A woman’s gentle mastery of the lion rather than a contest of force.