The Justice tarot card (Major Arcana XI) symbolizes fairness, truth, integrity, and accountability, representing the law of cause and effect where actions have consequences, often related to legal matters, ethical choices, or balancing life’s scales. Upright, it signifies fair outcomes, honesty, responsibility, and resolution, while reversed, it points to injustice, bias, dishonesty, or avoiding responsibility. Key imagery includes scales for balanced judgment and a sword for truth and decisive action, highlighting the need for clear, objective decisions.
Upright Meaning
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- Fairness & Truth: Acting with integrity, honesty, and impartiality.
- Accountability: Accepting responsibility for past actions and their results (karma).
- Balance: Seeking equilibrium and making balanced, logical decision.
- Legal Matters: Can signify court cases, contracts, or official decisions, often with a favorable outcome if honest.
Reversed Meaning
- Injustice: Unfairness, corruption, or being wronged.
- Dishonesty: Hiding the truth, manipulation, or bias.
- Avoiding Responsibility: Evasion, lack of accountability, or making poor choices.
- Imbalance: Emotional decisions, getting caught in cycles of resentment.
Card 8. Justice: Law and order, legal and court issues. A fair and balanced judgment. A developed conscience. Rationality, reasoning by clear rules and common norms. Touch of grace and humanity beyond the objective considerations.
Inverse: Petty accountability, a critical and judgmental attitude, guilt feelings. Repressive control of self and of others. Negative ideas blocking change and advance.
Message: act with reason and by the accepted norms.