Judgement: tarot card meaning

Judgement is card XX of the Major Arcana, associated with the element of Fire. Drawn upright it speaks of rebirth, calling, awakening; reversed, of self-doubt, ignoring the call, refusal to change.

Upright meaning

rebirth, calling, awakening, reckoning

A call to rise to a higher level of being -- answer what is summoning you, and own the whole road that brought you here.

Reversed meaning

self-doubt, ignoring the call, refusal to change, inner critic

The call is being refused by an inner critic or plain fear -- the invitation does not vanish; it only waits to be answered.

Vedic and astrological correspondence

In a three-card reading

In the past position Judgement describes the current that carried you to where you are; in the present position, what is most alive in the situation now; in the future position, the direction things tend toward if nothing changes. A reading weighs it against the other two cards rather than on its own.