The balance of Justice hints at an attraction and repulsion dynamic. Evidence is attracted to its proper place, and refuses to take the wrong side. In alchemy the scales provide a way to weight the proper amount of materials for any action.
This card suggests there is such a thing as absolute justice. While we never achieve that goal in our lives, we can perceive the inherent qualities necessary for just behavior. Your judgment is clouded by personal experiences that may not apply in a particular situation. Blind Justice presumably has no such limitations.
This care in a reading suggests that you have aroused unconscious knowledge about a situation that resonates within your soul. You can then choose to maintain the balance of the status quo, or you can choose to make active changes, based on the emerging knowledge.
“Essentially, Justice is not concerned with mathematical exactness but, like Astrea, with harmony, functional beauty, and a kind of truth which transcends rote measurement.
Poetic justice operates in the courts of both heaven and earth. It is not concerned with grim moralizing nor with question of crime and punishment. It is, rather, dedicated to the restoration of universal laws of harmony and creative balance.”
~ Sallie Nichols
Remember, then, son of earth, that to be victorious over thyself and dominate obstacles is but a part of the human task. To accomplish it entirely thou must establish equilibrium between the forces that thou hast brought into play.
~ C. C. Zain
I am the power of equlibration
Which holdeth Ruach in balance
Between formation and destruction.
~ Paul Foster Case
Sources
Zain, C. C., The Sacred Tarot. Los Angeles, The Church of
Light, 1936.
Nichols, Sallie, Jung and Tarot:
An Archetypal Journey. York Beach, Maine, Samuel Weiser, 1980.
Case, Paul Foster, The Book of Tokens: 22 Meditations on the Ageless Wisdom. Los Angeles, Builder of the Adytum, 1968. Quoted with permission from Builders of the Adytum, 5101 North Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA. 90042; http://www.bota.org/. Permission to use Builders of the Adytum images in no way constitutes endorsement of the material on this site.
De Angelis, Roberto, Universal Tarot Deck. Torino, Italy: Lo Scarabeo, 2003. Lo Scarabeo has graciously granted permission for the use of the Tarot images on this site. Copying the images without their permission wuld be a violation of copyright law.
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