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Tarot

Daily card free, plus a library of all 78 cards with their decans, Hebrew letters, paths and links, and the season's card. Read with three decks: the Rider–Waite–Smith, the Tarot de Marseille, or the 15th-century Visconti-Sforza painted for the dukes of Milan; watch the deck shuffle and the cards fall onto the cloth, see any card in all three decks side by side, and lay the trumps out as the Fool's journey. Shuffle by hand if you like — drag across the pile to riffle it, tap the edge of the deck to cut it, then deal — and have the cards dealt face down, to turn over one by one; hear the reading read aloud. Members unlock ten more spreads, from three cards to the Celtic Cross and the Year Ahead, with a clarifier and the Moon and hour of each reading. See the year as 36 cards: a wheel of the decans, with the Sun among them. Every spread is laid out on the table in its own shape — a row, the horseshoe's arc, the Celtic Cross and its staff, the year's ring — with threads drawn between the cards that belong together: their elements, as the Golden Dawn read them, a shared number, and the trumps that govern the minor cards; tap a card to follow its threads. Read any card with another to see how the two meet, and see the cards of this moment: the decans of the Sun and the Moon and the trumps of the hour, the day and the sign rising. Learn the cards by doing: name a card from its picture with the title hidden, or find the picture from its name, in any of the three decks; judge two cards' elemental dignity; lay the Fool's journey in order against the clock; and put each trump on its path of the Tree of Life. The cards you miss come round more often.

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LEARN THE BACKGROUND

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Justice

Justice

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Upright · Fairness, truth, cause and effect, accountability.

Reversed · Injustice, dishonesty, avoiding consequences.

A crowned figure sits between two pillars holding an upright sword in one hand and balanced scales in the other.

Hebrew letter Lamed · Libra

In other decks

Tarot de Marseille:: La Justice, VIII. The number differs from this deck's XI: the older order, and Crowley's, put Justice at VIII and Strength at XI.
Thoth (Crowley):: Adjustment, VIII. It has the same order as the Marseille.

THIS CARD IN THE THREE DECKS

On the Tree · Hebrew letter ל Lamed, “ox-goad” — path 22, joining Geburah – Tiphareth. Correspondences →

Cards it governs

Libra in Correspondences →

Read it with another card

78 cards · Rider–Waite–Smith

HOW THREE TRADITIONS DRAW AND NAME THE CARDS

The Tarot de Marseille

a pattern fixed in the 17th and 18th centuries, from Italian decks of the 15th

The older pattern, in which the small cards carry no pictures.

The numbered suit cards show only their symbols, laid out as on playing cards, so a Seven of Cups is read from seven cups and their arrangement, not from a scene.
Justice is VIII and Strength (Force) is XI.
The court cards are King, Queen, Knight (Cavalier) and Knave (Valet).
Readers of this tradition often work from the number and suit and the positions of the symbols on the card.

WHERE IT DIFFERS In the Rider–Waite–Smith deck every card has a scene, and Strength and Justice swap their numbers.

Sources: Wikipedia, “Tarot de Marseille” and “Justice (tarot card)”

Card images: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909 (public domain); the RWS1909 scans on Wikimedia Commons.

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