The Justice - Meaning of The Justice Card in Tarot Cards

The Title of The Justice Tarot card is, ‘The Daughter of the Lords of Truth. The Ruler of the Balance’. The image seen on the card is that of a conventional figure of justice with scales and balances. Justice can be easily distinguished from love. Her emblems are the Sword and the Scales. Like her sister, she is clothed in green, but in a sharper colder green than the pure emerald of Isis. Other colours related to The Justice Tarot card are blue, blue green and pale green. It is only by utilising the flashing colours that we can find the hidden warmth and steadfastness.

The specific meaning of The Justice Tarot card is eternal justice and balance. This card can be related to strength and force, a person who is caught in the act of judgement. In combination with other cards, The Justice Tarot card can also be related to legal proceedings, a court of law, a trial of law etc. To be specific, this card means balance and harmony. Legal matters and serious relationships like marriage or business partnership are also signified by The Justice Tarot card.

People often look to fairness in their life. They try to be considerate to others, but fairness in a strange word. A person winning the case thinks the outcome to be fair while the other party believes that the outcome was unfair.  Balance is a continuous process as we continually course correct, and maintain direction. In this more ecological world, The Justice Tarot card can be seen as a judgement on our ability to balance the inner with the outer, or our needs with the needs of Earth.

As this card follows the traditional symbolism and carries above all its obvious meanings, there is little to say regarding it outside the few considerations collected in the first part, to which the reader is referred. It will be seen, however, that the figure is seated between pillars, like the High Priestess, and on this account it seems desirable to indicate that the moral principle which deals unto every man according to his works while, of course, it is in strict analogy with higher things, differs in its essence from the spiritual justice which is involved in the idea of election. The latter belongs to a mysterious order of Providence, in virtue of which it is possible for certain men to conceive the idea of dedication to the highest things.

The operation of this is like the breathing of the Spirit where it wills, and we have no canon of criticism or ground of explanation concerning it. It is analogous to the possession of the fairy gifts and the high gifts and the gracious gifts of the poet: we have them or have not, and their presence is as much a mystery as their absence. The law of Justice is not however involved by either alternative. In conclusion, the pillars of Justice open into one world and the pillars of the High Priestess into another.