Faerie Tarot - The World

Alan Ross

This card shows a zoomed in view of a small girl fairy sitting in an Orchid blossom. This orchid blossom is one of a vast field of orchid blossoms. The girl has a pensive look on her face and is holding a globe in one hand that is emanating "cosmic energies." According to the LWB, these cosmic energies represent "the glorious achievements of all creation and the immutable movements of life."

How I see this card is that it portrays the breadth and the depth of both the outer world, represented by the orchid field, and the inner world, represented by the globe. The globe shows the fairy's connnection to the ground of all being, the Universe as it truly is.

There is an interesting note about this card in the LWB. Nathalie was pregnant when she was designing this card. She believed that her baby was going to be a girl, so that was what she painted in the card. The card alludes to an old French story that girls are born in flowers and boys are born in cabbages. As it turned out, her baby was a girl, and she dedicated this card to her.

Alan
 

Hemera

"A Maori myth claims that orchids originate from rainbows.
It's said that pieces of the rainbow – shattered from the weight of admiring spirits perched on it – floated down onto every part of the earth and transformed into epiphytic orchids where the celestial colours snagged on trees."(Christina da Silva)

Orchids are the largest family of flowering plants in the world and they grow everywhere,iin all continents and from tropical jungles to cold arctic deserts. Choosing an orchid flower to the World card is a really good idea.This orchid is the Moth orchid (Phalaenopsis) which grows as en epiphyte (on trees) in the rainforests of Asia and some species grow in the Himalayan mountains. And today there are hundreds of man-made hybrids that flower in out window sills.They are called Moth orchids because they are said to resemble big tropical moths in flight.