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The Justice card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A crowned figure sits between two pillars holding an upright sword in one hand and level scales in the other, one foot just showing beneath the robe.

Upright

  • Balance
  • Consequence
  • Clear sight

Sword and scales together: the traditional reading is a matter weighed properly and then acted on. It invites you to look at where cause and effect are plainly linked in your own situation.

Reversed

  • Imbalance
  • Avoided reckoning
  • Bias

Reversed, the scales sit unevenly — a reckoning postponed, a story told with a thumb on one side, or a judgement passed before the weighing was done.

About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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