The Library Justice Reversed
Major Arcana
Justice reversed
- truth
- fairness
- law
- cause and effect
- accountability
Reversed meaning
Reversed, Justice warns of unfairness, of a system or person operating outside integrity. There may be bias, dishonesty, or an avoidance of accountability. You may need to examine your own truthfulness, or to acknowledge where judgment has been clouded.
Reversed in love
One side of this relationship has been carrying more than its fair share, or a truth is being avoided because naming it would require an accounting neither of you wants to do yet.
Reversed at work
Something unfair is happening at work — credit misassigned, a process that isn't applied evenly — and pretending not to notice won't make the imbalance settle on its own.
Reversed in health
You're avoiding a diagnosis or a hard truth about a habit's real cost, or judging your body more harshly than the actual facts warrant.
Reversed in spirit
You're either escaping accountability you actually owe, or holding yourself to a standard so severe it's stopped being fair. Justice, including toward yourself, requires proportion.
Reversed, as advice
Look for where you've been unfair, to someone else or to yourself, and correct it before the imbalance grows harder to fix.