Judgement

awakening · a call · reckoning · a second chance

Card art: Pamela Colman Smith, 1909, for A. E. Waite. Public domain.

Trump 20

In a few words

awakening
a call
reckoning
a second chance

A call you cannot ignore. Waking up, being counted, answering for the past and rising from it.

Upright

Everything: A call you cannot ignore. Waking up, being counted, answering for the past and rising from it.
Love: A moment of truth between you. Forgiveness, a reunion, or a clear decision at last.
Work: A review, a result, a verdict on your work. Stand up for it; a new chapter follows.
Money: Accounts closed and cleared. An old matter resolves; a fresh start with money.
Myself: You hear what you are for. Answer it.

Change of position, renewal, outcome. Another account specifies total loss though lawsuit.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 284

Reversed

Everything: Refusing the call, or judging yourself too harshly. The reckoning waits until you face it.
Love: Unable to forgive, or avoiding a conversation that would settle things.
Work: Doubting a decision already made, or dodging a review. Face it and move.
Money: Delaying the settling of accounts. It does not get cheaper.
Myself: Regret with no action. Learn the lesson and stop the punishment.

Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity; also deliberation, decision, sentence.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 284

The card, as Waite described it

I have said that this symbol is essentially invariable in all Tarot sets, or at least the variations do not alter its character. The great angel is here encompassed by clouds, but he blows his bannered trumpet, and the cross as usual is displayed on the banner. The dead are rising from their tombs—a woman on the right, a man on the left hand, and between them their child, whose back is turned. But in this card there are more than three who are restored, and it has been thought worth while to make this variation as illustrating the insufficiency of current explanations. It should be noted that all the figures are as one in the wonder, adoration and ecstacy expressed by their attitudes. It is the card which registers the accomplishment of the great work of transformation in answer to the summons of the Supernal—which summons is heard and answered from within. Herein is the intimation of a significance which cannot well be carried further in the present place. What is that within us which does sound a trumpet and all that is lower in our nature rises in response—almost in a moment, almost in the twinkling of an eye? Let the card continue to depict, for those who can see no further, the Last Judgment and the resurrection in the natural body; but let those who have inward eyes look and discover therewith. They will understand that it has been called truly in the past a card of eternal life, and for this reason it may be compared with that which passes under the name of Temperance.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 148

The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.

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Upright

Everything

A call you cannot ignore. Waking up, being counted, answering for the past and rising from it.

Love

A moment of truth between you. Forgiveness, a reunion, or a clear decision at last.

Work

A review, a result, a verdict on your work. Stand up for it; a new chapter follows.

Money

Accounts closed and cleared. An old matter resolves; a fresh start with money.

Myself

You hear what you are for. Answer it.

Change of position, renewal, outcome. Another account specifies total loss though lawsuit.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 284

Reversed

Everything

Refusing the call, or judging yourself too harshly. The reckoning waits until you face it.

Love

Unable to forgive, or avoiding a conversation that would settle things.

Work

Doubting a decision already made, or dodging a review. Face it and move.

Money

Delaying the settling of accounts. It does not get cheaper.

Myself

Regret with no action. Learn the lesson and stop the punishment.

Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity; also deliberation, decision, sentence.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 284

The card, as Waite described it

I have said that this symbol is essentially invariable in all Tarot sets, or at least the variations do not alter its character. The great angel is here encompassed by clouds, but he blows his bannered trumpet, and the cross as usual is displayed on the banner. The dead are rising from their tombs—a woman on the right, a man on the left hand, and between them their child, whose back is turned. But in this card there are more than three who are restored, and it has been thought worth while to make this variation as illustrating the insufficiency of current explanations. It should be noted that all the figures are as one in the wonder, adoration and ecstacy expressed by their attitudes. It is the card which registers the accomplishment of the great work of transformation in answer to the summons of the Supernal—which summons is heard and answered from within. Herein is the intimation of a significance which cannot well be carried further in the present place. What is that within us which does sound a trumpet and all that is lower in our nature rises in response—almost in a moment, almost in the twinkling of an eye? Let the card continue to depict, for those who can see no further, the Last Judgment and the resurrection in the natural body; but let those who have inward eyes look and discover therewith. They will understand that it has been called truly in the past a card of eternal life, and for this reason it may be compared with that which passes under the name of Temperance.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 148

The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.