Judgement
The Judgement card invites you to look back on your life and choices with objectivity. It signals a significant opportunity to learn from your past, potentially becoming something new or deciding to remain as you are by choice. Represented by Anubis in ancient Egyptian mythology, it involves self-assessment and decision-making about your future direction.
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This is the card for which I deviated the most from the Rider-Waite-Smith imagery, which depicts the rapture, complete with an angel blowing a trumpet to beckon all good Christians out of their graves and into heaven. Instead, I chose to draw Anubis, the jackal-headed Egyptian god of the dead.
Ancient Egyptian Judgement
The ancient Egyptian understanding of divine judgment involved reciting the ‘Negative Confessions,’ a list of 42 sins that the soul had not committed. After this, Anubis would weigh the heart of the recently deceased against the feather of truth. If the heart was lighter than the feather, the soul would ascend to the afterlife. If the heart was heavier, the heart and soul would be devoured and destroyed. Yikes.
Self-Assessment
But we are not dead yet. Thus, the reckoning is not external. It is an invitation to look objectively back on your life and your choices. Who have you been, and who do you want to be?
Opportunity for Change
Judgement is a big deal card. It is an opportunity to learn from your past, to answer a calling, to intentionally become something new. Maybe you like what you see and don’t wish to change. This is also okay, as long as it is a decision, not stagnation.
Self-Judgement
You are both Anubis and the heart; you judge yourself. Who do you want to be?
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