Judgement
Judgment represents the culmination of actions and intentions, where all individuals face the consequences of their deeds. It emphasizes the need for accountability and reflects the universal law of cause and effect. This card urges clarity on what aspects in life deserve your time and energy, encouraging you to remove harmful influences. Additionally, it carries the imagery of apocalyptic end-times across various religious traditions.
Keywords
DECISION; RECKONING; REWARD; PUNISHMENT
Judgment is the culmination of all actions and intentions, the time at which everyone will reap their just desserts. Featured heavily in a myriad of religious texts, the good will be rewarded and the bad will be punished.
Symbolism
A menacing being strides through the clouds. One hand points to the accused while another readies a long spear. For sinners, the time of reckoning has come.
Universal Application
Judgment, though, must be enacted across all beings alike, including the judge herself. A third-hand clutches a ring of thorns, a symbol of penance for past wrongs, while a fourth hand gestures towards a healing wound, the closure and forgiveness of misdeeds repaid.
Moment of Clarity
Though referencing an apocalyptic end-time, the Judgment card more often calls for a moment of clarity: what people, projects, or things are deserving of your time and energy? Have you returned this relationship in kind? Extraneous entities that are of no benefit or have only caused harm should be stripped away and barred.
ADDITIONAL ARTWORK
Surrounding the towering figure are seven trumpets or shofar.
Historical and Religious Context
During the age of Abrahamic religions, these trumpets were a traditional sacred craft of the ancient Hebrews and were made from ram’s horns, lending to their spiraling shape.
Book of Revelation
The Christian Book of Revelation signals the end-times by the blowing of these seven trumpets, each bringing forth an apocalyptic event, ranging from a third of all trees and fish dying to the opening of a bottomless pit from which poured scorpion-tailed warhorses.
Islamic Quran
The Islamic Quran also signals the end-time with two blows of a trumpet, first causing all on earth to fall dead, and finally to arise and await judgment.
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