The card of Justice is also called the Daughter of Lords of Truth and Ruler of the Balance. It is aligned with Libra and so represents balance.
She has links with the Egyptian Maat and her husband Thoth, as well as the Greek goddess Athena and the Hopi, Keresan and Navajo Spiderwoman.
The Justice card brings to the Major Arcana the first of the so-called four moral lessons - along with The Hermit, Strength and Temperance - and these represents the necessary faculties to progress in life.
The appearance of Justice in a reading means that you need to bring a balanced and dispassionate view to your current situation, and not be carried away by emotion.
Emotion is hot and variable, while Justice is cool and considered. The situation calls for a calm and cool head that can step back and consider the facts in order to come up with a fair response.
Embodied in this card is a lesson and instruction to step away from the well-meaning influence of friends, family and upbringing and start to develop your critical thinking faculty after laying out the facts, weighing them up and always taking the path of least conflict or giving people the benefit of the doubt.
This card often presages a turning point in your life where you may currently feel some inertia and inability to move either way. But a decision is required, so best to take a birds eye view of the situation, remove the emotion from it, and honestly decide the pros and cons.
If this gives you trouble, ask someone of your acquaintance who you know to be level-headed and fair to assist you.
A good time to contemplate what throws you off balance in life, and what centres you.
“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.” ― Voltaire
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