Swords and Scales: The Justice Card in the Tarot

(Based on the representations found on the Rider-Waite-Smith deck.)

In the ancient Egyptian, Hellenistic, and Roman pantheons, a version of a “sighted” Justice figured prominently as the celestial representative of divine law and order. Alternatively identified as Maat, Themis, Dike, or Iustitia, the personification of Justice, though differing in its mythology, shares the common principles of balance, wisdom, and swiftness in the dispensation of her function.