As a tarot trump, The World brings reminders from the macrocosmic perspective of 'the big picture'. This might be overtly objective for many people, in terms of describing unfoldings within a town or country or literally the whole of Earth. It might refer to an Aion, a qualitative epoch in time which - while less immediately discernable in itself - makes its mark inevitably known upon all physical locales which also make up 'The World'. It might even point to a much more subjective layer of the subject's own interior landscape (with its own tides and constellations) interfacing with and relating to the wider World.

In any case, The World is not one of those trumps which speaks of being an island unto oneself. In meditating on this concept, we find that we are dealing with ideas in relation to others, with connexions amongst themselves, as parts of a greater whole. Always greater than the merely individual will be the weighty matters pointed to by this card, even (especially?) when Worlds collide and compete.