Tarot Of The Day July 2, 2018 - Day 14: The Raven’s Prophecy Deck - Justice

Tarot Of The Day July 2, 2018 - Day 14: The Raven’s Prophecy Deck - Justice

I have begun the creation of an 89 day tarot course in a group I am a member of on Facebook ('A Kaleidoscope of Magical Perceptions' is the name of the group, please feel free to request membership - it is full of fun people and really great posts about all manner of topics) and I thought I would cross post the information here to this blog as well. Once the initial 89 days of the course have passed, it will start over using a different tarot deck. The text of the fourteenth session follows.

In the Rider-Waite deck, Justice is a familiar looking card - if we look back at The Emperor and Hierophant, there are the red robes, there are the thrones, there are the symbols of power. With Justice, we have a rather androgynous figure, seated on a stone bench between two pillars, with a red cloth draped behind them. The archetype of Justice wears a golden mantle, a golden crown, and holds a golden scale in its left hand, and a sword with golden hilt in its right hand.

The rider-Waite keywords for Justice are as follows: equity, rightness, probity, executive (upright,) law in all departments, bigotry, bias, excessive severity (reversed.)

In Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven’s Prophecy Deck, her Justice card is simply the scales, with a goblet and golden chains on the right, and a feather and a vine on the left. She writes, “Justice is a bit like the morality version of the Wheel of Fortune. What goes up must come down; what goes around comes around; you reap what you sow; insert proverb here. When you see the Justice card, it reminds you that you may have fudged the rule a little and got away with it, or you may have persuaded others that your dubious choice was a correct one, but the universe believes in an absolute right or wrong, and you will get what you deserve based upon that. This card is also a reminder that your reward or punishment is often unseen. A bad turn performed on someone else will haunt you years later, and likewise, an unnoticed kind event will create its own reward inside you. At the end of it, you will become the product of these actions: *you* are the Justice.”

Maggie’s keywords for Justice are absolutes, cause and effect, and morality.

To me, Justice is about balance, about the yin and yang of the universe. That for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Tomorrow - The Hanged Man

***TOTD will cover the entire 78 card Raven’s Prophecy Deck alongside the Rider-Waite deck for comparison. In order to not completely burn out, this course of lessons will be 89 days long, so that every Saturday I can break the lessons up by doing a practicum lesson. Practicum lessons will take the form of a layout or spread that I will walk you through the steps of interpretation for. After the first 89 day session ends, we will start over with a one day break for a poll to be done to see what deck everyone wants to see next round. ***