What does Justice mean upright?

Waite: “Equity, rightness, probity, executive.”

What does Justice mean reversed?

Waite: “Bigotry, bias, excessive severity.”

What does Justice mean in tarot?

Justice, from the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith

In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Justice upright means “Equity, rightness, probity, executive”, and reversed “bigotry, bias, excessive severity”.

Upright

Equity, rightness, probity, executive.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3

Reversed

Bigotry, bias, excessive severity.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3

What does the picture show?

As this card follows the traditional symbolism and carries above all its obvious meanings, there is little to say regarding it outside the few considerations collected in the first part, to which the reader is referred.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 2

Where does Justice fall in a reading?

Justice belongs to the Major Arcana. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.

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Waite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.