Another clear message, and applicable to my mood today. The True Black Tarot is pretty amazing!
The figure on the Justice card stands tall and faces the observer, but her eyes and face are hidden behind a white veil held in place by a golden crown (representing the authority of impartial truth). In her right hand (the traditional hand of power) she holds the sword that executes justice and equalizes wrongdoing; in her left hand (traditionally the receptive hand) she holds the scales that measure the weight of one's heart. Behind her is a holograph of the constellation Libra, one of the four cardinal virtues of Rome (Prudence, Courage and Temperance are the other three). This version of the Justice card is about blind justice (rather than the Divine justice that is present when the figure looks into the viewer's eyes) and Arthur sees her as a sentinel who answers to no man or no power, but only to the searing light of truth (represented by the glowing orb behind her head). The keywords of this card are fairness, impartiality, karma, and clarity.
The Knight of Cups wears beautifully designed armor fashioned from gold that looks dramatic and eye-catching but that might not work so well in a battle. Our Knight wears a mask of gold that completely covers his eyes, with double wings and a stylized halo made of golden vines above and behind his head. He wears fancy epaulets made of gold on his shoulders and a stylized golden kilt with many strands of gold coins hanging like a fringe at the front closure. He has one hand on his heart, and the other hand holds a golden rose which is beginning to lose its petals. Beside him floats a dagger made of water, which is beginning to drip into a cup floating just below the dagger's point. The water in the cup appears to be sloshing about. The keywords for this card are emotional, brooding, artistic, and dreaming.
Emotions and feelings can be like addictive drugs that blind us to reality, and my Knight of Cups is reminding me of that. Yes, visions are the first steps to manifestation and feelings can support and add to our own good health and sense of well-being. However it is easy to become addicted to certain feelings (such as anger), and to allow those feelings to color our perception and blind us to reality. Justice weighs both the cause of the issue in play and effects of the manifestation of that issue. The figure representing Justice must understand those concepts and then present a conscious and deliberate response to what has occurred thus far in a completely impartial manner, without allowing emotions or prejudices or expectations or favoritism to affect any outcome.
There is a warning here that giving emotions and feelings too much power might end up making me ineffective. Better for today that I should not view the world from my own perspective and instead understand that things might appear different when viewed from outside my own Self.
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