The World represents completeness, wholeness, reaching a point where you have achieved all that you desired, reaching the pinnacle of success, and having fully integrated all aspects of your personality and life.  It can symbolize a sense of oneness with others or the world around you; fulfillment on spiritual and emotional levels; dancing through life, refusing to give in to despair or negativity.  It may also represent finally realizing your meaning and purpose in life and being confident that you can achieve it.

"Negative:  You have too many choices before you.  The complexity of your life is overwhelming and it isn't going to do you any good to stay in the midst of the confusion.  You are keeping too many options open when you should be simplifying things and narrowing your choices.  Multiplicity is not to your advantage at the moment.
Reversed:  You have numerous possibilities available within your own being.  You can be many selves and experience many levels of reality.  You may even move in and out of various lives and various realities - at your will.  You are aware that the Universe is a complex place and you are experiencing its multiple dimensions within your own consciousness." - Gail Fairfield

Hmph, my first response when I saw this card was a rather flippant - of course, my whole world needs works.  Upon further consideration I realized that it was interesting that each card showed someone in the air.  On the Dance of Life card a figure is flying over a landscape as through surveying all the worlds at her command.  On the Victorian Romantic card, a young woman holding a basket overflowing with flowers is hanging mid-air as though she jumped up and managed to get caught and upheld by invisible hands.  The is an exuberance and joy in the image; she literally seems to be jumping for joy.

Of course it's reversed in my case but I'm not seeing this as a negative.  I do believe Gail Fairfield's statement that one negative aspect of this card could be that one's life is overwhelming is certainly appropriate in my life right now.  I do need to narrow options and simplify.  At the same time I think this card is telling me that now might be a good time to seriously explore all of those possibilities.

I remember participating in a workshop at a Readers Studio one year and the exercise required that we choose a Tarot card that we usually consider a positive card and consider its negative aspects.  My partner's card was The World and he genuinely seemed puzzled about how there could be anything negative in The World.  So we discussed how feeling as though one has the weight of the world on one's shoulders could be negative.  Or that is one believes he or she already has The World at his/her feet then they might not feel the need to continue trying to reach new goals and achieve new conquests.  

Right now both of those aspects are manifesting in my life.  Personal and family obligations do occasionally become overwhelming and seem insurmountable.  I'm trying not to lose myself in sorrow, grief or frustration, although there are days when that's just no possible.  On the positive side, some of these current obligations and experiences have shown me that there are a lot of things that I had previously considered essential in my life but I've now come to realize they were distractions.  They didn't enrich my life in meaningful ways, simply distracted me from understanding that reality.  It doesn't mean I'm going to get rid of all my possessions and become an aesthetic but it will make me consider all future distractions.  

I think what needs hard work right now is figuring which of my selves and which realities I want to pursue.  I don't feel the need to narrow it to just one option because I don't want to but at the same time infinite possibilities just create confusion and provide additional distractions.  I need to learn how to view my kingdom and see what areas need additional work, what needs to be demolished and what needs to be enjoyed more.