Justice
Justice represents the Law of Karma, embodying balance, healing, and objective judgment. This card signifies taking responsibility for past actions, finding inner equilibrium through awareness and objectivity, and understanding that life maintains perfect balance through constant subtle adjustments. It calls for impartial evaluation of situations and reminds us that what we give to the world returns to us as compensation.
Keywords
Alchemy
Zodiacal trump of Libra; Dominion of Venus, Saturn in ascension; connects Geburah and Tiphareth on the Tree of Life
Kindred Souls
Daughter of the Lords of Truth; Ruler of Balance
Essence
The Law of Karma. Stability, balance and equilibrium. Healing. Precision of judgment and harmony. Equality, justice and impartiality. Finding inner center with complete awareness and objectivity of perception. Destiny. Acceptance of past actions and determining a new course. Wisdom. Legal matters. Receiving rewards, responsibility. Self-control.
Meaning
This card reflects clarity and objectivity of perception. It speaks of awareness and balancing all factors related to the question at hand. A moment arrives for taking responsibility, resolving disputed matters, and stepping back from active involvement to finally determine one's true motivations. This may relate to a specific issue or to our overall well-being. The result of achieving the inner balance contained in this card will be a sense of certainty of purpose and tranquility that leads to intuitive understanding of one's destiny.
Healing and Mediation
Often the Justice card speaks directly about healing, as all systems must function harmoniously and in coordination - in this case referring to the physical systems of our organism: nutrition, circulation, and the nervous system. The Justice card indicates we are in a situation where we must demonstrate impartiality, objectivity, and strive to find truth. This may involve resolving legal matters or situations where we must act as mediator. In many cases this card appears when circumstances force us to act as advisor, whether for someone else or ourselves, in matters relating to our area of concern. The Justice card often appears in readings when we are concerned about doing the right thing or receiving what is rightfully ours. Perhaps we need to bring the situation into balance, or we must first calm down and order our own emotions to move forward.
The Law of Karma
Central to this card is the teaching about Karma. Universal balance is maintained through the finest adjustments - aligning the smallest deviations from original balance with directionally opposite deviations. These adjustments are made by nature and are therefore absolutely natural; viewing them from a scientific perspective allows us to understand their essence more clearly and deeply. Justice is not only weighing on scales of objectivity and paying bills, but also the continuous precise compensation that prevents all existence from collapsing into chaos. Just as a butterfly makes light and imperceptible changes in the rhythm of its tiny wings to maintain purposeful movement, these constantly made corrections and refinements preserve balance and continuous sequence of events. Understanding the karmic balance that ensures eternal flow of life gives us the opportunity to penetrate the meaning of our own influence on surrounding phenomena and understand why certain events occur in our lives. The 'cause' that we ourselves create and initiate at a certain moment later returns to us as 'effect.' Justice helps us understand how we ourselves choose our current situation, arising from our past thoughts and actions.
Karmic Principles
Other ideas representing the principles of Karma are: first, understanding that without one state of existence there cannot be an opposite state, and second, everything we 'give' sooner or later returns to us as compensation - sharing love, we receive love in return, while pouring out anger, we then take upon ourselves the same amount of anger, compensating for what we lost. In Tarot, the Justice card represents understanding that life, by and large, is beautiful and good, and the very nature of this card is closely connected with healing and recovery. Sometimes Justice serves as a signal to do what is necessary. Then we need to carefully weigh all circumstances and perhaps make important decisions about our future course. Applied to the question being asked, this card calls us to pay very close attention to the situation and give it objective evaluation.
Analysis and Symbolism
As is known, the Vampire possesses extremely heightened perception - even in complete darkness he easily catches the scent of blood or barely audible whisper. The tiniest ethereal particles, easily penetrating through his body, reach the brain, reviving in him knowledge of the Vampire's nature, deeply buried within his essence. Being in perfect balance with the nature of surrounding sensations, the Vampire gains spiritual understanding of them, which is directly reflected in his psychic abilities. The sword is a symbol of justice and balance of the four elements. Its point touches the earth, emphasizing that all our thoughts sooner or later find their reflection in physical reality. Two vessels with blood hang like scales in perfect balance; illustrating karmic laws, they also indicate that all existence (including people and thoughts) has equal value, though possessing different qualities.
Astrological Influence
This card is ruled by Venus with ascending Saturn and belongs to the sign of Libra. This indicates that the Justice card is endowed with powerful feminine qualities of healing and peace of mind. Saturn's influence gives Justice's character calmness and meticulousness, connecting it with earth's mechanics. It never remains satisfied and constantly strives to improve the situation. It is the center of past and present. It embodies those scales on one side of which lie parity and dispassionate judgment, and on the other - the sword of decision-making and justice of verdict. In Ancient Egypt, the goddess of justice was Maat, and in the hall of the Afterworld named in her honor, each person's heart was balanced against a feather; if the heart proved heavier than the feather, it was deemed impure and given to monsters for burning.
Divine Order
The main message of this card lies in the law of cosmic order - cause and effect, reminding us that everything existing in the world is in Divine balance. Justice is also connected with understanding the inevitability of consequences arising from past evil or good deeds, and with awareness of results from past thoughts and actions. Essentially, this card represents ideal centralization, inner balance, and extreme sensitivity to the slightest changes in our emotions, thoughts, and environment. This sensitivity allows us to make subtle adjustments to our state and behavior necessary to maintain balance and stability and movement in the flow of the Eternal.
Shadow
Are we treating someone unfairly? Perhaps we see things from our own subjective point of view when we need to consider them from more impartial positions? When Justice is in shadow, this sometimes advises us to analyze our past actions and see how they influenced our current situation. The past will continue to haunt us until we acknowledge our own mistakes and correct them. Perhaps someone blames us for their mistakes, thereby causing us emotional disturbance that throws us off balance. Sometimes life problems and hardships bring us to a state of lost inner equilibrium and cause despair. Depending on the question asked and other cards participating in the spread, Justice in shadow position may mean inconsistency, disharmony, or unfair behavior. Other shades of its meaning may be lack of faith in oneself or others, dishonesty, prejudice, hidden motives, or lack of sincerity. Are you avoiding making an important decision? Perhaps the reasons lie in resentment, arrogance, overconfidence, or hypocrisy.
Personal Level Guidance
On a personal level, this card may tell us that we must step back and retreat to once again clarify that we haven't strayed from our main course, or try to find a new perspective from which we can examine the situation more clearly. In any case, we should restore inner harmony through relaxation, concentration, or meditation, or achieve external harmony by making peace with someone or something related to our question. The Justice card calls us to learn from our own mistakes, pay our bills and debts (emotional, material, or spiritual), and then move forward (provided we have paid our debts and learned from past mistakes) toward a new, bright, and just future. In this meaning, Justice becomes a banner forcing us to face our own weaknesses.
Visual Description
A woman stands facing the viewer with her arms lifted and hands resting behind her head. Two large suspended bowls resembling scales hang at the upper left and right, and a dark circular disk hovers above her. A sword with an ornate hilt points downward at her midline; dark red staining runs along the blade toward the bottom. She wears layered jewelry and a fringed garment, and twisting vine-like forms fill the lower background; the card title in Cyrillic appears along the bottom.
Tarot of Vampyres
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