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Adjustment: From the Little Booklet

The Daughter of the Lords of Truth: the Ruler of the Balance. Teth. Libra.

Justice.  Balance.  Adjustment.  Suspension of action pending decision.  May refer to lawsuits, trials, marriages, treaties, etc.

Traditionally called Justice, the new name is a literal translation of the French "Justesse," that is Equilibrium.  She is balancing from the headdress of Isis the scales in which are the bubbles of Maya, illusion, typifying the transitory quality of human justice.  The whole picture represents balance by opposites.  The diamond patterning foreshadows the balancing Harlequin of the Commedia del l'Arte.

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Adjustment or traditionally Justice.  This card represents the Woman satisfied.   This condition is symbolized by the scales, in which she weighs the universe; Alpha, the first, exactly balances against Omega, the last.  These scales represent the two 'witnesses.' Each 'witness' is an authentic manifestation of Maya, the one fulfilling the other by a process of contradiction, for nature is not Justice -- She is rather through her process of equilibrium "la Justesse."  Finally, this Woman is the original Harlequin, for the wild blend of colour and of movement resolves itself into an equilibrium of all possibilities of sensation.

 

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