Major Arcana · 20
Judgementfor Aries · Love and Relationships
"You've been holding your own trial long enough."
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Almost at the end of your journey, the judgement card calls us to look back on what we have done and evaluate it. Taking in the good, the bad and the neutral. Judgement, in particular the word itself, is not always effective, but understanding and feeling compassion for all parts of our past is an important part of loving ourselves.
A moment of reflection, calling you to look back at your past, evaluate it, and then release yourself from it. Don't be obsessive over your failures, but rather see what you can learn from them and then let them go. They have been judged and you can move onto the next thing. Things from your past might be coming to the surface (hurtful comments said in anger might be playing in your mind, an ex might reappear, someone you hurt might come across your feed)
You are being hypervigilant or avoidant about the things in your past you wish would die. This is giving them power over you in a way you cannot fathom. You must feel your emotions so that you can let them go (don't call your ex, but rather accept you miss them and make a commitment to truly release them)
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Where it shows up.
Judgement for Aries in Love and Relationships
The Initiator
Pluto works on a longer clock than Mars-ruled Aries is used to. Whatever this is, it will not resolve on Aries's preferred timeline. Upright, this is surfacing whether or not it was invited.
When reading about relationships through an Aries lens, the Judgement says that you feel like your person is the spark that tells you that you are alive, the mirror you look in to check if you are still winning (or losing), and something you can set on fire and rebuild constantly. This has either created a partnership where you both move fast and break things together, or left you chasing the feeling of the first three months with person after person. The thing you're not saying out loud is the thing that matters most. The Aries blind spot in it is the feeling that nothing you do makes any difference, that you are not the center of the story.
In practice that can look like a turning point rather than an incident, or meeting someone who changes the shape of it. Whatever form it takes, it is surfacing whether or not it was invited.
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