Justice: tarot card meaning

Justice is card XI of the Major Arcana, associated with the element of Air. Drawn upright it speaks of fairness, truth, accountability; reversed, of bias, dishonesty, avoiding responsibility.

Upright meaning

fairness, truth, accountability, cause and effect

Truth surfaces and choices carry visible consequences -- weigh things fairly and act with integrity; what you set in motion comes due.

Reversed meaning

bias, dishonesty, avoiding responsibility, karmic backlog

A fairness or honesty question is being dodged -- face the account squarely rather than letting an imbalance grow.

Vedic and astrological correspondence

In a three-card reading

In the past position Justice 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.