An empty crossroads on a heath at night, a leaning signpost and poppy heads in the verge.

The tarot · XXI

The World

Great One of the Night of Time

The face of XXI, The World, engraved in gold on black, with its title, Great One of the Night of Time.

Completion, integration and the dance of the whole.

Upright

A cycle closes in wholeness. Achievement, arrival and a sense of belonging in the world. Celebrate, then prepare for the next spiral.

Reversed

Loose ends, delays or stopping just short of completion.

Show the spirits

The spirit work

Zazel is the spirit of Saturn under the intelligence Agiel. Kronos rules time itself. A good card to close a series of readings and to give thanks.

A question to sit with

What would it mean to let this be finished?

Where the card sits

Correspondences

Path32, Yesod to Malkuth
Hebrew letterTau, the cross, value 400
AstrologySaturn, planet
Presiding powerKronos, lord of time and the golden age
Governing angelsArchangel Cassiel; intelligence Agiel
SpiritZazel, spirit of Saturn; Olympic spirit Aratron
Sealthe sigil of Zazel on the kamea of Saturn
RuneIngwaz, the seed: gestation, completion and stored potential
The World in the guidebookAll seventy-eight cards

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Notes on sources

The meanings, the questions and the correspondences are the guidebook’s own. The paths, letters and astrology follow the Golden Dawn’s attributions; the angels are the Shem ha-Mephorash, as the deck gives them; the spirits, shown only when you ask for them, are the seventy-two of the Goetia. Where each comes from, and what is old and what is modern, is set out in the guidebook’s Notes on sources and seals.