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The Judgement card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck

The Major Arcana

Judgement

reckoning · awakening · a call

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A summing-up, and something like a summons. Judgement is the moment you see a stretch of your life clearly enough to draw a conclusion from it, and then have to answer the call that conclusion makes. Often it's a return to something you set down.

Reversed

Reversed, the call is being ignored — or you're judging yourself so harshly that no verdict would be survivable. If it's the second, it's worth asking whether the standard you're using is one you'd apply to anybody else.

If this is your card this month

What have you learned recently that you haven't acted on yet?

A card is a prompt rather than a forecast. It doesn't know what will happen, and the useful part is what you do with the question it hands you. We make that case at more length in not a prediction, a mirror.

Where this card came from

If Judgement arrived on a postcard, it was drawn for you for that full moon, and the reflection on the back was written from what it means. And if it didn't, well — that's the other thing we do here: a card and a reflection in your mailbox every full moon.

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