Justice upright
Justice holds the sword upright and the scales level. She isn't merciful and she isn't cruel - she's accurate.
Decisions made with full information. Consequences accepted, not negotiated. Truth that doesn't bend for comfort.
If you've been waiting for vindication, this is the card that gives it. If you've been hoping you'd get away with it, this is the card that doesn't.
Justice reversed
Reversed, Justice has been deferred or evaded - by you or by someone else.
Imbalance, denial, the long delay before the bill comes due.
Keywords
- justice
- truth
- accountability
- fairness
- consequence
Where this reading comes from
Meaning paraphrased from A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), which is in the public domain - reworded rather than reproduced.
Common questions
- What does Justice mean?
- The reckoning. What is, weighed honestly. Justice holds the sword upright and the scales level. She isn't merciful and she isn't cruel - she's accurate.
- What does Justice mean reversed?
- Reversed, Justice has been deferred or evaded - by you or by someone else.
- Is Justice a good card to draw?
- Justice is one of the twenty-two Major Arcana, which mark structural turns rather than day-to-day detail. Tarot convention treats no card as simply good or bad - the reading depends on the question and the position it falls in.
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