Justice in the tarot

The Justice card in the Tarot shows a woman (Crowley deck) focused holding and a very large sword with both hands, she seems to show us someone who is in deep concentration, weighing options so to speak. She seems to have her eyes closed as if she is looking inward and wants to be objective and fair in her deliberations so that she can give a fair judgment. Justice is impartial and looks at the facts without letting emotional considerations get in the way of her carrying out her duties.

Justice is very important to me, but when it is mixed with anger then there can be real trouble for anyone who gets in my way if I have lost touch with any kind of objectivity about the situation that I am angry about. Anger can be used to give me energy and courage to right a wrong, or it can give me the illusion that I am both judge and jury when it comes to fighting what I perceive to be an injustice either to me or others.

Once when I was angry over a situation I decided to meditate on the Justice card and see if I could get some kind of balance by allowing the symbol to work on my unconscious. During the mediation the Justice card opened her eyes, turned the sword right side up and then got into a fighting pose; she then said to me whose head do you want me to chop off!!!! I replied no ones; she smiled and said yes justice is not about revenge or attacking but about balance in making judgments about someone else, she then returned to her original pose.

Justice is a hard virtrue to develop and I am still working on it after all these years, and hopefully I am getting a little better at it as my live moves on. It is not easy being around someone who is angry all the time, who feel that their anger gives them the right to decide the rightness or the wrongness of any given situation, and people rightly avoid such individuals since they only bring discord and fear into any given problem that needs to be dealt with. Like I said anger can prompt us to deal with injustice but the danger is that even more injustice will be brought into the world if constaint along with self knowledge is not used.

peace
Mitch