Justice
Justice is seated between the positive and negative forces, indicated by the pillars first seen in the High Priestess and again in the Hierophant.
Her sword is lifted in defense of justice, and none can escape it; it points upward, indicating victory, and is two-edged to convey that action destroys as well as builds, that the false must be cut away from the true.
The three turrets of her crown and the four sides of the jewel in the center add up to the number 7 (Venus).
In her left hand are the scales of gold, always related to balanced judgment.
Balance is indicated here, as it is in Key 8, Strength. Keys 8 and 11 represent two aspects of the operation of a single power, creative imagination.
All imagination is based on memory.
This Card is that of the Great Mother through whose love, care, and perfect justice the children of men may achieve equilibrium.
With this Key, the Fool embarks on a higher cycle of manifestation but with all the experience gained during the previous sequence of ten keys.
The purified, disciplined personality now recognizes the One Life and feels it standing beside him, as the sword of power endows him with the ability to divine right from wrong.
Divinatory Meaning:
Justice will be done. Balance is required. Lawsuits will be won. The balanced personality demands elimination of excess baggage, wrong ideas, useless forms of education.
A mixture of the right ingredients is welcomed—as in science, chemistry, and cooking. May betoken the desire for education, with a well-balanced mind as its objective.
Reversed:
Injustice, inequality, legal complications. Advice to use mercy and understanding when judging others, and to avoid excessive tendency to severity.
