Justice

The number 11 in most decks of the Tarot is the Justice card. Justice is normally seated in between two pillars. They're no longer black and white. They're all gray.

This card has to do with compassion, truth, honesty, and balance. Balance in all things. We need balance in all things specifically because if you're unbalanced, you're not thinking correctly, you're not acting correctly.

The gray pillars also indicate that we are seeing all of the nuances of a situation or have the possibility to see all of the nuances of a situation because you don't always know all of the details.

And so we sometimes are a little quick to justice or quick to judge when we don't really have all of the facts and we're speaking from a place of ignorance of the facts. So the Justice Card is also a warning to make sure you have all of your knowledge before you make a decision, which is a compassionate way of doing things.

Compassion lies between conviction and punishment. is neutral. Compassion is neutral because you can understand the pain from both sides. You can understand the hurt or the joy from both sides. But you're neutral with your own life and you're neutral with other people.

in your listening, in your day-to-day relationships, in your work relationships, you can remain neutral and understanding while still loving them.

In most decks, Justice is not blindfolded, but she is showing compassion with her Justice, weighing our hearts and intentions against a set of universal truths. Justice sees beyond the personal agendas, beyond revenge, beyond the action to act out, beyond the emotion that can be present.

As in, Justice likes to stay neutral, understanding both sides, not taking sides, just being neutral and listening. It's an opportunity when you see the Justice card come up to step back and observe without participating. Don't step into the drama that's being presented.  Don't step into other people's arguments.

You're not the judge, not the jury, you are the observer, the listener, the compassionate neutrality that most situations call for, especially if there are arguments or personal agendas going on.

The Sword of Justice is a double-edged sword and it cuts both ways. Honesty is much the same. The truth will set you free, but if stated with nastiness, the truth is meant to hurt rather than to heal. So no compassion is being used in a situation like that. The Justice Card always wants to state things from compassion and not emotion.

The Justice card also deals with the mundane world, legal matters, signing of contracts, illegal paperwork, all matters dealing with truth, honesty, and legality, which is very cut and dry, which is why Justice is a double-edged sword.

If the justice card is in a shadow position, you may feel that life is unfair, that people are against you, situations are not going your way, people are making decisions for you. You may feel personally under attack.

If you get to respond during this feeling of being personally attacked, is usually, not usually, but it's always from a place of pain. If you take a step back and go, this isn't about me, this is about the other person, and understand it from that point of view of their pain, you've stepped into compassion.

So it is always good that anytime that there is a two-sided conversation that is not going well, step back and listen with compassion and when it's time to speak, speak neutrally without blame and without shame. questions to consider when you are working with the Justice Card is, am I doing the right thing?

Has karma ever come back to bite me in the butt? And if so, how? And how did I participate in that? We always participate