Judgement
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| Wands | Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King. |
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A tarot card. Position 20 in the Major Arcana. Known as The Last Judgement in some decks. Aleister Crowley, in contrast, named it Aeon because of his New Age beliefs.
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Description
Rider Waite Deck
(from The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by E.A. Waite)
I have said that this symbol is essentially invariable in all Tarot sets, or at least the variations do not alter its character. The great angel is here encompassed by clouds, but he blows his bannered trumpet, and the cross as usual is displayed on the banner. The dead are rising from their tombs--a woman on the right, a man on the left hand, and between them their child, whose back is turned. But in this card there are more than three who are restored, and it has been thought worth while to make this variation as illustrating the insufficiency of current explanations. It should be noted that all the figures are as one in the wonder, adoration and ecstacy expressed by their attitudes. It is the card which registers the accomplishment of the great work of transformation in answer to the summons of the Supernal--which summons is heard and answered from within.
Herein is the intimation of a significance which cannot well be carried further in the present place. What is that within us which does sound a trumpet and all that is lower in our nature rises in response--almost in a moment, almost in the twinkling of an eye? Let the card continue to depict, for those who can see no further, the Last judgment and the resurrection in the natural body; but let those who have inward eyes look and discover therewith. They will understand that it has been called truly in the past a card of eternal life, and for this reason it may be compared with that which passes under the name of Temperance.
Meanings
- realisation, decision
- Percieve truth in reality to gain an intellectual insight that transcends flat reason.
- awakening, especially metaphorical
- being called to something, either spiritual or in a mundane sense
Reversed Meaning
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Correspondences
- Links Hod to Malkuth as path number 31 of the Tree of Life
- Colour red
- the alchemical element of Fire
- The direction North to South (from the Sepher Yetzirah)
- Yetziratic Intelligence - the Perpetual intelligence
- Musical note C (Paul Case)
- Hebrew letter Shin meaning Tooth and also the number 300
- Organic Time - The Information Crisis The end of the Twentieth Century isn't so much marked by an event as much as the slow sweep of individual searches for growth. This awakening of the human collective's elements is forced upon us by the eradication of nearly all limits to definition and calls on us to judge ourselves in this new reality to give us a sense of reason in our single life's scale and then through the scale of the whole universal procession.
