From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
The World
Meanings
True fulfillment. Abundance, success, enlightenment, contentment. You are a role model – others want to follow your example. With this comes responsibility. Share your wisdom and good fortune.
Reversed (?)
Can’t get no satisfaction. For all you have achieved, you are still not content. Perhaps you have set unattainable goals and not taken joy in the increments you have made towards those goals?
Description
A nude man stands in the clouds, surrounded by a wreath of laurel leaves and the faces of a woman, an eagle, a bull and a lion. A light cloth protects his modesty, and he holds two golden rods, one aloft and one by his side.
Artwork
- Sky: EVERDINGEN, Allaert van, Hendrick Trip's Cannon Foundry at Julita Bruk, Södermanland, Sweden, c.1645-75, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
- Eagle: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel, Jupiter and Callisto, 1613, Staatliche Museen, Kassel.
- Lady's face: MIJTENS, Jan, Lady Playing the Lute, 1648, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
- Nude man: RENI, Guido, The Triumph of Samson, 1611-12, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna.
- Laurel leaves: GIORGIONE, Portrait of a Young Woman (Laura), 1506, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
- Rods: DAVID, Gerard, The Annunciation, c.1520, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt.
- Lion: RUBENS, Pieter Pauwel, Daniel in the Lion's Den, c.1615, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- Cow: AERTSEN, Pieter, Adoration of the Shepherds, c.1565, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
