Tarot Cards - Justice

Questions & Answers – February 2006

By Marva Boehm Mason

Karma seems to be on my mind as I contemplate the Tarot Card “Justice”.   What is Justice?    In my early training with the Tarot, I learned that Justice showed that the “right thing will happen”.   But, what is the right thing?   Is it limited to just this lifetime?    Through my personal exploration of this card, and readings, I have come to feel that this is a card which may encompass more than this particular existence that we are living.   

We all, from time to time, watch detective, sleuthing programs on television, and watch how sometimes the murderer gets away, or there’s a mistake and there is a wrong victim.   If we rise above this earthly existence and try to look at some of this from another perspective, from the perspective of karma, it sheds new light on the happenings of life.

In particular, I was watching a movie recently, in which a cop pulls over a couple and takes things too far by intimidating the couple who were at a disadvantage because, obviously, the cop is the one with the gun.   The cop took personal liberties with the wife, then let them go.   The wife was enraged   The following day, the wife was traveling in a vehicle and involved in a traffic accident where the vehicle rolled over.   This same cop happened to be at the scene and was the only one there who could now save this woman from a fiery death within moments if he didn’t get her out of the vehicle where she was trapped.    I can’t help but look at these situations from a karmic viewpoint.    What was the karma between this cop and this particular woman?   One day he violates her, and the following day he saves and restores her life.

Life is so short and yet so chocked full of events which are entangled in karma with others.   I have come to feel that, like the Justice card in the Tarot, sometimes the right thing happening is not necessarily tied to this life time, but to a collection of lifetimes involving the various participants.  Without knowing what is written in the Akashic Records, we really don’t know what the “right thing” is.   We just keep on living and going through those revolving chamber doors making karmic deposits to be reckoned with at some later time.