When you see The World in a tarot reading it reflects a moment of perfection, when everything falls into place.

Just last week, a client who lives abroad and always comes to see me in Battersea when she comes to England to watch the tennis at Wimbledon came for a reading. Although she wanted a general reading, uppermost on her mind  was the burglary she’d had, she particularly wanted to know whether it had been a set up or was opportunistic and she pulled the World.

I did slightly stop in my tracks – the card of perfection, not the card I was expecting to reflect a burglary.  However as she described what had happened it did perfectly describe the luck of the burglar.  They’d been trying to get into the flat next door (which they’d burgled before) and couldn’t and so took a look at my friend’s apartment next door.   They only had to push up the blind of the bedroom window to see the latch wasn’t locked and it took them no time to cut a perfect square in the glass (through two sheets mind you – they were professionals – another nod to the perfectionism of the World – and clearly very good at their job). They quickly found the jewellery box in her dressing room table.  It was stuffed with wonderful heirlooms and jewels , they took it and they left.  Nothing else was disturbed. The perfect robbery.  No one around, in and out.

I remember getting the World for a TV film project that had just been cancelled by ITV. It had been green lit, great script, great cast all ready to go and I was devastated, rather like my friend who’d just had all her jewellery stolen, who was especially upset by pieces that had great sentimental value.  I’ll never forget it, I pulled a card for the project and got the World.  Which basically said the project was perfect, i.e. there was nothing I needed to do, it was a complete package.  Well as perfect as the project might have been, it didn’t help get made, as the new controller of ITV had decided to cancel any projects targeting old people and mine was a caper about old people escaping an old people’s home.

It was then right at the beginning of my learning of the Tarot, that I understood sometimes the World doesn’t necessarily apply to your good fortune. The irony didn’t escape me then, so when my client received it about her robbery I did understand how helpless we can feel when our misfortune is someone else’s piece of luck, and rather out of our own hands. I am assuming someone else’s project at ITV did get made instead of mine.

Even thought The World didn’t suggest any behind the scenes skulduggery, we did pull a card on it and pulled the Knight of Pentacles, who’s more of a steady Eddie, accountable, practical, reliable – so we thought not.   

However when we asked the question ‘Will she ever see her jewellery again ? She got the Sun.  So yes!  Based on the message of the Sun which is very positive and about materialising things in the world, we came up with a cunning plan.  Let’s see if it works.  So watch this space…..