![]() ![]() When making a fresh start, the card calls on us to consider the long-term implications of our decisions, and the greater impacts our decisions have. ![]() The Judgement card may also represent a fresh start A time to put away old ideas and practices and to begin afresh with a new outlook. Or it may reference someone else's spiritual growth and improvement. When the Judgement card appears in a reading, it may be a call to step up to a higher level of performance, consciousness and understanding. Is that within us which does sound a trumpet, and all that is lower in our nature rises in response. Waite wrote over a century ago, the card represents an internal trumpet call to something within us, calling us to better ourselves: The Judgement card's meaning is more metaphorical - representing a call to our spirit to rise up and become something greater than we are now. While many readers focus on the name " Judgement", implying some taking measure or a final verdict of some kind, those interpretations are better suited to the Justice card and not this one. a call to our spirit to rise up and become something greater than we are now. The Judgement tarot card, or The Last Judgement as it is sometimes referred to, is a positive card indicating rebirth and spiritual awakening. Waite's classic 1910 Pictorial Key to the Tarot, the card is also referred to by this longer, and more biblical title as well. NOTE: Many tarot readers refer to the Judgement card as "The Last Judgement". Hexagram #64 is interpreted as Before Completion - which is especially appropriate for the second to last card of the Major Arcana. NOTE: An interesting interpretation of the symbolism in the Judgement card is that it clevely contains a reference to the Eastern philosophy of I Ching: The depiction of Fire in the angel's hair, over the apparent Water below recalls I Ching hexagram number 64, which is rendered from the trigrams symbolizing "Fire over Water". but there is also an ambiguity in the depiction of the ground and the mountains in this card: Are the coffins floating on water? Or have they risen out of solid ground? Are those really mountains in the distance, or is a great and final tidal wave preparing to crash over the Earth? NOTE: The pale-blue coloring of the landscape may reference the 'far shore' of the river on the Six of Swords card, which represents the afterlife. The coloring and the art style give the landscape an almost maritime feeling. In the distance, pale-blue mountains rise above the horizon - symbolizing the incredible challenges of this fateful day. The land here is bleached of color, and has a lifeless, pale-blue and ethereal tone. Hanging from the trumpet is a flag bearing a red cross - symbolizing life, vitality and rebirth. The angel's hair resembles the element Fire, and his wings are tinged with the red of dawn, much like the angel in the Temperance card. The angel blows a great trumpet while gazing down at the ground below. They gaze upwards towards the sound of the angel's horn. Coffins open and the dead rise-up, arms outstretched, with expressions of awe and gratitude on their faces. The angel blows a great trumpet while gazing down at the ground below.īeneath the angel, a scene from the End Times unfolds. On the Judgement card, a great angel - most likely an allusion to the biblical Gabriel - appears in the skies, surrounded by clouds.
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