Hello. Hello and

Welcome to Tarobites. I'm Teresa Reed the Tarrel Lady. I'm the creator of the

Tarot Masterclass, the author of the Tarot Coloring Book, and I'm your host for this podcast series.

This is episode 21 of Tarot Bites, the podcast where I dish out short entertaining bite-sized lessons on how to re-tero.

For today's episode, our topic is justice.

So grab your tarot cards and let's begin.

Now in episode 18, I discuss the strength card and the controversy between the switching of the numbers between strength and justice.

I'm not going to go into that here, but do know that justice was originally number

8 and it got switched with strength card in the Riderweight Smith

deck and that's the deck that I work with. So Justice is number 11 in this deck and in many other decks.

And again, if you want to know more about the controversy,

go back and listen to episode 18 on strength

and that will cover it. So anyhow, let's move out with justice though. So unlike the

previous card that I discussed last week, which is the Wheel of Fortune. The symbols on the

justice card are few but they are still important nonetheless. So get your

card out and take a look and you know the first thing you're going to notice maybe, at least this is what I notice, are the scales in the figure's hand.

Scales are a symbol of balance and equality. They also represent the balance of past and future. Now in the figure's other hand, they're holding a big sword. Swords are part of the air element and they symbolize ideas or

thinking. So this sword is the ability to cut through the situation and get to the

bottom of things. It's a symbol of truth and integrity.

Now check out this. The figure is aiming the sword up to the heavens,

while the other hand, which holds the scales, points down at the earth.

Look familiar?

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