Justice and Judgement

Justice asks us to take responsibility for our actions, our choices, and the consequences they create. Judgement asks us to release the past, answer the call to growth, and move forward. Together, these cards remind us of a difficult truth: we are meant to learn from our mistakes, not spend our lives imprisoned by them.

When people ask why I read tarot, they often expect an answer about intuition, spirituality, or self-discovery.

The truth is a little messier.

What occupies my mind most often is morality.

Not in the grand philosophical sense. In the everyday sense. The conversations I wish I'd handled differently. The moments when I was impatient. The times I was hurt and responded with anger. The mistakes that most people seem able to forget but that I carry around for years.

I've always been fascinated by the way different people move through the world. Some people seem able to lie, betray trust, hurt others, and sleep perfectly well at night. They rarely question themselves. They believe they're right, and that's the end of it.

I've never been that way.

I question everything.

Sometimes I envy people who don't. There are days when stubborn certainty seems much easier than endless self-examination. I wish I could be clueless and delusion

For a long time, I thought what I wanted was a clean moral slate. I wanted to be able to look back at my life and find no mistakes, no regrets, no evidence that I had ever fallen short of my own standards.

The problem is that no such slate exists.

Every human being has caused harm. Every human being has been unfair. Every human being has misunderstood someone, spoken out of anger, or made a choice they would take back if they could.

Tarot has slowly taught me something I resist over and over again: growth is not the same thing as perfection.

Justice asks us to be honest about our actions. Judgement asks us to stop living inside them forever.

That lesson became especially important after a painful falling out with a group of people I though were my friends. What began as conflict eventually turned into something larger. It made me question my judgment, my trust in people, and even whether I wanted to read tarot for anyone ever again.

In hindsight, the experience taught me something difficult but valuable. People are complicated. So am I.

The goal isn't to become someone who never feels anger, never makes mistakes, or never gets hurt.

The goal is to become someone who can face those realities honestly without turning life into a permanent trial.

Maybe that's what tarot has always been helping me do.

Not find a clean moral slate.

Just learn how to live without one.

-The Tarot Gal