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Major Arcana XX

Judgement

Call, review and wake up

  • call
  • review
  • wake up
Card of three cats on lotus platforms looking at a winged feline guardian with trumpet and flag, while golden waves travel across the sky and water
Major Arcana XXJudgement

Reading the card

Listening to the call means responding from who you are now.

Judgement proposes to look at the complete route without turning it into a sentence. Recognizing decisions, losses and learning allows you to respond in a different way to a call that was already present and choose which version of yourself deserves to continue.

Judgement brings together an audible call and figures that respond from different places. It does not represent a court that determines your value, but rather a moment of review capable of modifying the future. Look at the journey with enough distance to recognize both responsibility and learning. What decision would you make now with what you know? Responding may mean making amends, resuming a vocation, or ceasing to hold an old identity. The awakening is demonstrated in the behavior that follows.

Documented iconography

Symbols to look slowly.

We separate the motifs inherited from the Rider-Waite-Smith system from any artistic decision of Cat Omens.

  1. RWS Tradition

    The trumpet

    The sound passes through the scene like a call that does not force, but does demand to be heard.

    The Pictorial Key to the Tarot · Part II
  2. RWS Tradition

    The figures that rise

    The collective response represents a review of the journey and the possibility of getting up in another way.

    The Pictorial Key to the Tarot · Part II

Origin

What we inherit and what we interpret.

The symbolic structure belongs to a published tradition; the reading and the feline adaptation are an editorial creation of Cat Omens.

Reference system
Rider-Waite-Smith
Editorial layer
Original Cat Omens