Tarot card meanings · Major Arcana

Judgement

A call to rise to your own standard. Review honestly, forgive what is done, answer what is calling.

Judgement
Lunara deck · XX

How Lunara reads it

Upright: A call to rise to your own standard. Review honestly, forgive what is done, answer what is calling.

Reversed: Self-judgement louder than self-review, or a call ignored. Turn the verdict into a question.

Keywords: awakening, review, calling · reversed: self-criticism, doubt, ignoring the call

Correspondences

  • Element: Fire
  • Planet: Pluto
  • Zodiac: Scorpio
  • Yes / no: yes · reversed: no

When it appears upright

  • Receiving a wake-up call
  • Discovering a new purpose in life
  • Becoming totally and completely yourself
  • Receiving a well-deserved reward
  • Passing an evaluation or examination
  • Welcoming the start of a new phase of life

When it appears reversed

  • Being weighed in the balances and found wanting
  • Failing to measure up to a well-defined standard
  • Being caught goofing off or misbehaving
  • Failing to prepare for an examination you know is coming
  • Rejecting an opportunity to reinvent yourself

Classic readings

  • An old issue you thought was over will come up again today
  • Get ready for huge changes: break-ups, sudden calls from old friends, and unexpected setbacks
  • God's trying to get your attention

In love

Upright: relationship renewal, reconciliation, emotional awakening, an important romantic decision. Reversed: avoided reckoning, stuck in the past, self-criticism, missed reconciliation.

In work and money

Upright: career calling, performance review, second chance, decisive professional awakening. Reversed: ignoring the calling, harsh self-judgment, stuck in the past, avoided decision.

Inner life

Upright: spiritual awakening, answering an inner calling, self-evaluation, release from the past. Reversed: ignoring the inner call, harsh self-judgment, stuck in the past, avoided awakening.

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