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If your birthday adds up to 21, then The
World is your Personality Card. This
means that you are a natural explorer, adventurer, and builder
of new worlds. You love travel and experiencing other parts of
the country and other cultures. You are a natural visionary. Instinctively,
you can see what needs to be re-built or designed in new ways.
You have a natural ability to renew and regenerate yourself and
others. People will see you as highly creative, practical, productive
and passionately involved in what has heart and meaning for you.
The World also shows your strong connections to the Earth. Nature thus gives you a profound love of beauty and sensitive aesthetic appreciation.
As
a Personality Card, The World indicates that you must learn to
work within structure. The word structure is being used here in
the sense of a structure we live within, such as genetic inheritance,
our language or culture. The World tells you that you cannot change
this structure, but that it also need not limit your experience
of freedom. And likewise, you will find that your need to develop
your potential self-expression is also not necessarily limited
by it.
You'll learn to know the medium that you work with so well that it does not hamper your creativity. For instance, as a musician you learn the notes, scales, and fingering of your instrument in order to be able to create and improvise with complete freedom. The same with painting - you must know the possibilities and limitations of your brush, colors, and surface before you are free to create with them.
Many
times you will find it difficult to be limited, restricted, or
restrained in any way, and the concept of freedom will be very
important for you. But remember that your strength lies in the
functioning with and within structure and you need a structure
to be present to flourish.
21-3's need to establish personal discipline if they wish to accomplish something. Only in this way can you use your penchant for being drawn to many different areas of endeavor to become a well-rounded individual. Remember that discipline, combined with hard work, gives you the basic tools with which to express your creative imagination and give it form.
Just
as your Soul Card, The Empress, represents physical birth, so
The World represents your ability to give birth to yourself and
your ideas, in this world. The scarf flowing around the figure
conceals the dancer's hermaphroditic qualities. Your ultimate
creation is your ability to integrate masculine and feminine characteristics
within you, giving birth to the wholeness of being human.
You use a way of wholistic thinking, combining the intuitive with the rationality of the scientific thinker. This enables you to sense the larger picture. This is also why you might focus your "mothering instinct" on planetary or even cosmic issues. You might even be attracted to ecological matters and deep concern for the Earth at different times in your life and thus will be very active in making the universe a better place to live in.
Because
they focus on functioning within limitations, 21-3's stretch our
concepts of what is humanly possible in all fields. Also, many
21-3's break through the previously accepted ideas of what is
appropriate for their gender.
Since 21 is the last number in the major arcana, it is also a card of completion. In this case completion implies freeing yourself from inhibition and seeing things from a wholistic perspective. Once you conceive what is possible and see it in all of its dimensions, the process of actualization becomes automatic.
THE HANGED MAN represents self-sacrifice and submission of the self to higher ideals. For many people with the Empress as soulcard and thus her need to 'mother', this represents the desire to hold onto someone. For instance, someone who talks about their sacrifices in order to receive recognition of love. You need to ask yourself, how and why am I being a martyr? One of your lessons to learn is humility.
If not already focused on family and children, you may devote yourself to an equal or greater cause. However, this devotion can be overwhelming, turning a normal life upside down and becoming greater than any personal relationship.
The Hanged Man literally represents your "hang-ups," things you try to hang on to, and whatever you are hung up on. You fear to be alone and powerless. Yet it is often through bafflement and confusion that spiritual growth can take place.
Some 21-3's seem to take on the woes of the world, or act out the myths and dreams of the masses. When such a role becomes too great to handle, you may turn to drugs, drink, or overwork to escape the pressure, which ultimately only intensifies the problems. These qualities of The Hanged Man may also emerge in fights of fancy and imagination, or become lost in illusion.
In its teacher aspect, The Hanged Man shows you how to make noble and unconditional sacrifices. You will be forced to release your preconceptions, especially in Hanged Man Years. It is also the pattern breaker, turning upside down any habits that limit you from realizing your highest self.
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