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XX · ArcanumJudgement
Judgement in tarot is a card of calling, awakening and forgiveness.
Key meanings
- calling
- awakening
- forgiveness
- renewal
- reckoning
Judgement upright
An inner calling and a renewal. Forgiving the past and rising into who you truly are.
The shadow side
Judging your past self so harshly that you can't hear the call forward.
Judgement reversed
Deaf to the call, self-blame, staying stuck in old guilt.
Judgement as the card of the day
A quiet call is sounding inside you, to become who you truly are at last. Today you can forgive your past self and rise to that call without fear of judgment. What you have outgrown lets you go in peace.
The question this card asks
What is quietly calling you now, and what can you forgive yourself for so you can answer?
Judgement: yes or no?
leaning yes
Judgement sounds the trumpet and the dead rise. Yes, if you answer the call.
Here arcanum XX gives leaning yes, which is a direction of travel and never a promise about the outcome.
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Is Judgement (XX) a kind card or a hard one?
The deck holds no plainly bad card. This one speaks about calling and awakening, and how gentle or harsh that sounds depends on your question and on the way the card lands. No card here is a sentence.
Major or minor - where does Judgement belong?
Major, arcanum XX of twenty-two. Major arcana speak of thresholds and minor arcana of routine, and XX is a threshold.
What comes just before and just after Judgement?
The Sun stays behind it and The World waits further on. Seen that way, arcanum XX reads as a move rather than a fixed state.
Reversed, does Judgement (XX) mean the opposite?
In the upright position calling and awakening come to the front with nothing holding them back. Upside down, arcanum XX describes the shadow of the same movement: too much of it, too little, or too late.