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Major Arcana · 11

Justicefor Scorpio · Self and Identity

Justice tarot card

"You know what's fair. Now act like it."

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On the card

A judge holds a sword in one hand and a scales of justice in the other. Balance will be restored one way or another. This card represents finding the truth and bringing it to light. The truth in this card is more objective and less subjective.

Upright
FairnessTruthBalanceAccountability

You are being challenged by a situation, but through honesty and directness you will prevail (in the end). Hold the moral high ground and maintain your own self respect when you are being tried.

Reversed

You are off balance in some way, either through an extremely unfair situation or because you have refused to speak up when you knew something was wrong. If it's safe to do so, speak your mind and do right by those around you.

Its place in the deck.

Major ArcanaCard 11
One of the 22 Major Arcana. They point to the large themes and turning points in a life, not the day to day. When one comes up, the reading is about something bigger than this week.
StageThe turn inward
After the Fool, the Major Arcana run in three stages of seven: the outer world (1 to 7), the turn inward (8 to 14) and the return (15 to 21). This one is in the turn inward: the point where the tools that worked outside stop working.

Where it shows up.

In the stars
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VenusThis card's planet
What you find beautiful, who you're drawn to, and what feels good.
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Justice for Scorpio in Self and Identity

The Transformer

Venus sits outside Scorpio's usual Pluto register, so this one arrives as unfamiliar weather. Upright, this has turned inward, to the place where the outer tools stop working.

When reading about yourself through a Scorpio lens, the Justice says that you feel like your own motives are worth interrogating endlessly, a mystery even to you (or especially to you), and something you will judge harshly before anyone else gets the chance. This has either led to you becoming very honest about what you actually want, or to you believing you do not deserve it. You have been so focused on who you think you should be that you haven't checked in with who you actually are. The Scorpio blind spot in it is the feeling of being fooled, or of being seen as naive, or of depending on someone who will leave.

In practice that can look like something you cannot un-see about yourself, or a season ending. Whatever form it takes, it is turning inward, where the usual moves stop working.

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