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Major Arcana · Trump XI
Justice
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightFairnessAccountabilityA clear weighing
↓ ReversedBiasUndue severityTangled rules
What it means
↑ Upright
Sword upright in one hand, scales level in the other: a decision made on the facts and owned afterwards. The card asks for fairness, honesty and an open look at the consequences of what has been done. Weigh both sides as if you had nothing to gain, say what is true, and accept your share of the account.
↓ Reversed
The scales tip: a judgment colored by bias, someone else's or your own; a rule applied so strictly that it stops being fair; or a matter tangled in procedure until nobody can see the point. Look for the fact you would rather not weigh, and set severity aside long enough to hear the other side.
What's on the card
A crowned woman sits between two pillars before a hanging veil, a sword held point upward in her right hand and a pair of scales in her left. The sword is commonly read as the decision that cuts cleanly, the scales as the weighing that comes before it. Unlike most figures of Justice she is not blindfolded: she looks straight out and sees what she judges. Waite notes that her pillars open onto this world, the High Priestess's onto another.
Waite's meaning, 1910
Upright
Equity, rightness, probity, executive; triumph of the deserving side in law.
Reversed
Law in all its departments, legal complications, bigotry, bias, excessive severity.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.