Tarot · Major Arcana
Justice
Key XI - Air
Correspondences
- Element
- Air
- Planet
- Venus
- Sign
- Libra
- Number
- 11
- Yes / no
- Maybe upright, No reversed
Traditional Golden Dawn attributions. The yes / no value is a convention for single-card questions, not a prediction.
Upright
A fair and honest reckoning is unfolding, in proportion to what has been sown.
Justice. A fair and honest reckoning is unfolding, in proportion to what has been sown. Eleventh: consequence arriving in exact proportion. The ledger balanced, without malice and without mercy. Under Venus, it works by attraction and by value: what is wanted, what is worth having, and what is made beautiful enough to be kept. Being Air, it resolves through what is thought and said, and it will need words. Its keyword range runs through fairness, truth, cause and effect, accountability, and clear judgment.
Reversed
Truth is being bent, or accountability is being dodged.
Justice reversed. Truth is being bent, or accountability is being dodged. Its sign is Libra, which weighs: relation, proportion and fairness, and the difficulty of choosing when both sides have a real case. Reversed here, it has turned inward: felt privately, withheld, or held so tightly that nobody around you knows it is happening. Its keyword range, to be read here as difficulty, delay, or a lesson not yet learned: unfairness, dishonesty, avoided accountability, imbalance, and a skewed outcome.
About the Tarot
A 15th-century Italian card game that was turned to fortune-telling only 350 years later.
The upright and reversed meanings here follow the mainstream Rider-Waite-Smith reading tradition. A reversed card is treated as the same force blocked, turned inward, or overexpressed - not simply as its opposite.
Full history →Meanings are a guide to a symbolic tradition, offered for reflection and entertainment. They do not predict the future or describe real people or events. See the Terms.