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Justice Tarot Card Meaning

Justice is card XI of the Major Arcana. Upright it speaks of fairness, truth, cause and effect; reversed, of unfairness, dishonesty. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's Jungian archetype and its astrological correspondence.

Justice tarot card — hand-illustrated Lunara deck
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Upright meaning

“Equity, rightness, probity, executive; triumph of the deserving side in law”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: fairness, truth, cause and effect, accountability, clarity.

Reversed meaning

“Law in all its departments, legal complications, bigotry, bias, excessive severity”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911

Keywords: unfairness, dishonesty, avoidance of accountability.

The archetype

The inner judge — discrimination and conscience; the psyche's law of balance.

Astrology

Correspondence: Libra.

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