8. La Justice

Justice from Tarocchino Arlecchino

About the Card

English Name(s)

Justice

Correspondences

  • Grand Etteilla: Card Number 9
  • Tarot de Marseille: Trump VIII

Image Description

Justice sits and looks down at a set of scales hanging from a globe held in her left hand. In her right hand she holds a red sword upright. Her dress is patterned with black and white diamonds and has a pale blue bodice. Her mask is black with a green outline and she wears a red bicorne hat, decorated with a gold oval in the center and two baubles hanging from each corner. She has a cloth with red, blue, green, and yellow diamonds draped over her lap. There is a red, black, and gold disk in the upper right corner, and red marks on the ground.

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Meanings

Upright

Justice, equity, probity, uprightness, right, natural right, human right, moral right, public right, civil right, rectitude, reason, execution.

Reversed

Jurist, legislator, legislation, tribunal, law, decree, code, order, statutes, precepts, commandment, constitution, domination, institution, natural laws, moral laws, religious laws, civil laws, political laws, laws of war.