Barbara Walker Tarot - 21: The World

A naked woman dances in an encircling wreath, surrounded by female versions of the Wheel of Fortune totems: a lioness, a cow, a she-eagle, and a female fairy. As the tarot’s true Last Trump, this is the vision of a sage’s final moments, when he hopes to enter the being of the Great Shakti (Goddess). The tarot’s true message seems to be salvation through the female principle, “the Generative Womb of All, the Beginning and End of Beings.” The Goddess’s legs form the same figure as the Hanged Man’s, since she is the dancer in the heart known as the Female Soul. Her card is also called Shekina, Sophia, Eve, Truth, Mother Nature, the Bride, and the Universe. It is interpreted as completion, perfection, ultimate knowledge, true union, and return to vital beings.