11-Justice – Upright Golden Deck

Your Chosen Card – Justice Upright Golden Deck

When upright, the Justice card suggests that your current situation hinges on matters of equilibrium, balance, fair treatment, and justice. If you are involved in a legal matter, it will be judged impartially and is likely to be decided in your favor (but only if you are in the right). If you are in the wrong, the same impartiality applies and you will be held accountable. In any decision you take now, it is essential to be honest and judicious in weighing the pros and cons. In the words of the Bible: ‘Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap’ (Galatians 6:7, KJV).

Keywords Upright: Justice, equality, human rights, law and order, fairness, truth, lawfulness, just behavior, balance, impartiality, tolerance, reasonable decisions, courts, legal matters, accepting responsibility, correcting imbalances, respect for the law, morality, ethics, karma, actions and consequences, the right way, just deserts of one’s actions.

Key XI: Justice. This card is numbered VIII in the traditional Marseille deck.
Myths/Archetypes: The Scales of Justice. Karma. The Egyptian goddess Ma’at who weighed souls against a feature to determine if they were worthy of paradise. King Solomon. The Code of Hammurabi. Moses receiving the Ten Commandments.
Dates of Libra: 23 September–22 October (tropical); 17 October–15 November (sidereal)
Astrology: Libra, the Scales (ruled by the planet Venus)
Numerology: 2 (High Priestess) = 1 + 1 (Justice or Strength) = 2 + 0 (Judgment)

Golden Dawn: Justice, balance, legal proceedings, legal trials, courts of law.

When Justice is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If Justice is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Justice is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for Justice using cards from the Golden Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.


Here are some snippets from a few of my favorite books

Complete Book of Tarot
Book Details
Complete Book of Tarot: In the Middle Ages, theologian Thomas Aquinas used Plato’s metaphor of the charioteer to represent the cardinal virtue of Prudence, a card which seemed mysteriously absent from the major arcana of the Marseille tarot. The other cardinal virtues—Justice, Fortitude (Strength), and Temperance—each had a card devoted to them. It may be that the Chariot trump of the tarot was intended to represent Prudence, as the ideas of Aquinas were widely known at the time the tarot was created.

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: Golden Dawn: Gain, riches, honor, glory, arrogance, display, vanity (the latter connotations apply only when the Sun is accompanied by negative cards).

Development for Beginners: I’m sure you’ve heard the expression ‘silence is golden.’ Well, for the purposes of this exercise, silence is unacceptable. We are virtually never in an environment or situation that is completely and totally silent.

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Development for Beginners: I’m sure you’ve heard the expression ‘silence is golden.’ Well, for the purposes of this exercise, silence is unacceptable. We are virtually never in an environment or situation that is completely and totally silent.