Justice
The Justice card represents balance, harmony, and the weighing of decisions with complete awareness. It emphasizes objective resolution, taking responsibility, and understanding the consequences of actions. It is a call for meditation on morality, duty, and truth, ensuring fair and balanced outcomes.
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For the ancient Egyptians, when death claimed a Soul, it was brought to the judgment of the Goddess Ma'at. The Goddess would weigh the Soul against a feather, and if it was heavier, it was sent to the afterlife. Some call Justice blind, but that's not true. Its eyes shine with the whiteness of truth, penetrating through flesh and layers of emotions, distractions, illusions, and sensations, reaching the heart where liberated consciousness resides. Nothing can be hidden. Justice symbolizes karma. Souls are gathered in butterflies fluttering nearby, and she carries the feather at her heart like a sword.
Justice judges not from personal biases or possible gray areas, but based on absolute black and white. Facts are taken as they are - fair, objective, and impartial. There is a balance achieved when true justice is administered, correcting what was not settled properly.
Meaning
Balance, harmony, equilibrium, taking responsibility, considering all aspects before making a decision, choosing with full awareness. Justice relies on logical thinking, the ability to objectively resolve situations, and determining what requires reevaluation. Meditation on law, morality, duty, and possibly compromise should be conducted to accurately balance both sides of the situation. Admit and acknowledge the truth. Understand the results of your actions and their interconnections with everything around you, and from this understanding, chart a course for the future.
Explanation
Ma'at, in Egyptian mythology, is the goddess of truth, justice, and harmony, daughter of the sun god Ra, participant in the creation of the world when chaos was destroyed and order restored. She played a significant role in the afterlife judgment of Osiris. Ancient Egyptians believed that each deceased person had to appear before 42 judges and declare their innocence or guilt in sins. The soul of the deceased was weighed on scales balanced by the ostrich feather of the goddess. Anubis, the god with a jackal head, held the scales, and the verdict was given by Ma'at's spouse, the god Thoth. If the heart was burdened with crimes, the monster Ammit, a lion with a crocodile head, would devour the deceased. If the person lived with Ma'at in their heart, was pure and sinless, they would awaken for a happy life in the paradise fields of Aaru. Ma'at is usually depicted with a feather in her hairstyle, which she placed on the scale at judgment. It was believed that people live 'thanks to Ma'at, in Ma'at, and for Ma'at'.
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