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Judgment Tarot Card: The Assessment is Complete
Judgment as Evaluation
The judgment card can be like a cosmic command of “Put your pencils down and hand in your test.” How did you do? Did you learn the lessons that circumstances and challenges were designed to teach you? Or do you need another chance to learn them and integrate them into who you are? The time has come to assess where you are, what your standings are, what you accomplished, what you need to work on, and what comes next. This is not a harsh judgment. It is an evaluation of what you have accomplished on your personal path to enlightenment.
Judgment offers the opportunity to grow
If the assessment represented by the Judgment card indicates you have something to work on, remember, you have the opportunity to grow. You have the chance to take that next step. Are you taking it? Are you taking full advantage of the resources at your disposal? You have complete free will. Are you using your free will for the high road or the low? Are you using it to pursue highest and greatest good, or are you letting opportunities slip through your hands? Examine your circumstances. Appreciate the opportunities before you. Make the most of them. Aim high. Hear the call, then answer the call.
How do you know your assessment?
With Judgment representing an assessment, how do you know what your assessment is? You do this by considering where you want to be as contrasted by where you are. Have you achieved what you set to achieve? Are you respected as you feel you should be respected? Are you doing the things you would like to be doing? Do you feel good about who you are and how you relate to your environment and to others? If so, you can confidently say you have passed the assessment offered by the Judgment archetype. If something here is lacking, then there is more to work on. Work on it until it feels right to you. — Jim Larsen
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Judgment: What Has Your Life Added Up To?
To consider this is not an attack on your character
Judgment is the archetype of complete honesty. This cannot be faked. To even try to fake this would to live in denial, which will always be found out. Judgment is about assessing reality and examining strengths and weaknesses. It is about assessing how your actions have added up to create the life you now live, and what you could have, and perhaps should have done differently to affect a different outcome, perhaps a better and more hospitable outcome based on your life’s mission and the goals for personal Enlightenment that you have set for yourself.
In a perfect sense, the assessment from the Judgment archetype will be accepted as it is given- dispassionately and impersonally. In an imperfect sense, it will be met with resistance by the one receiving it. This person will take it personally, as if it is an attack on their character. Their egos will interfere with the wisdom and the growth opportunities inherent to it. They will push it away because it challenges what they have come to believe about their selves. One must take into consideration as an archetype, Judgment is never presented as a personal attack. It is presented as learning opportunities and chances to better one’s self. To let ego get in the way only diminished its power and intention.
Consider your actions as though you must one day answer for them in a court of a much higher power. Can you justify them? This is one message the Judgment card of tarot has for you. — Jim Larsen
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Tarot Combinations: Judgment and Five of Cups
Judgment and Five of Cups: Your deeds have added up unsatisfyingly.
Judgment and Five of Cups might be giving you the disappointing news that your deeds have added up to an unsatisfying conclusion. This is not what you were hoping for. You have spent a great deal of time and energy hoping and expecting a happy and positive outcome, but this did not come about.
What came about was a disappointing result. All you can do now is reflect on why this is so. Did you place too much hope in an outcome that did not come about? Were you convinced that it was one thing, only to discover that it was something else entirely? Did your hope for appreciation from others go unfulfilled?
Look for the lesson the situation has for you. Examine what you can do differently next time and how to temper your hopes and attitudes towards it so that you not feel a blunt force blow coming from the universe if the outcome is not what you envisioned it would be. –Jim Larsen
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Knowings From The Silence: Simple Wisdom For an Enlightened Life, vol. 1
Knowings From The Silence: Simple Wisdom For an Enlightened Life, vol. 2
Knowings From The Silence: Simple Wisdom For an Enlightened Life, vol. 3
Knowings From The Silence: Simple Wisdom For an Enlightened Life, vol. 4
Judgment: What Makes You Unique?
Judgment Tarot Card: Embracing Uniqueness
The Judgment card in tarot may be asking you to take a look at your life with an emphasis on what makes you unique. Where are you on your own personal journey to enlightenment?
We sometimes look at our lives and pinpoint things we don’t like. We notice things we would like to change, things we would like to be different. We imagine an outcome that we would like to achieve and we assume that someday it will be so. Maybe we assume we will get to a certain age and by then, these achievements will have manifested. What happens though, when time goes on and on and these changes do not happen? What happens when we get to that certain age when we thought these things would have become a reality by, but they still are not here? Perhaps it is so that at that point, we need to accept that this is something that is not meant to be in our life. Perhaps it is time to accept that it was never anything but a dream that we would have this.
Maybe it is by programming from society that instilled in us the false belief that this is something all members of society are supposed to have in their life and we feel inadequate that we do not. This is an unfortunate mindset. It does not allow for a genuine connection with all that is. It creates a false and unhealthy notion that we are all one and the same; that we are the results of a cookie-cutter mentality that has decided what society should look like. If we have not achieved these things, then we are abnormalities of society. And so if we have not achieved these things by a certain age or some other arbitrary point in our life, we feel like we do not belong. This is unfortunate.
It is better to accept one’s self as a unique being with unique needs on a unique journey that has its own set of needs and requirements. To expect to achieve such and such a thing by such and such a time serves only to relinquish your personal needs and be nothing more than a clone of some over-simplified original design. As an original being though, you must accept that your life may not be exactly as others will think it should be. Remember that you are on your own track to your own enlightenment and you will not get there trying in vain to be what others think you should be or by trying to live up to an expectation that is not congruent to your life path or mission.
So, live your life. Accept who and what you are. And do not apologize to yourself or to anybody else if your life does not match the template that others seem to fit so conveniently into. That template is for the ordinary people living their ordinary, societally ordained lives. The life you are living is very different than that and you should appreciate it even, and maybe especially, when others do not. — Jim Larsen
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Judgment: A PHD in Spiritual Matters
Judgment Tarot Card: Life Lessons Never Stop Coming
What does the Judgment tarot card mean? Sometimes you will find you are in a situation you that tests everything that you have figured out. All of your spiritual and esoteric learnings are put to the test. Things that you thought you had mastered suddenly come up in much more profound ways that force you to reconsider if you have mastered them or not. This could be an old lesson coming back to you that you are now going to experience on a higher level.
This is to realize that you are meant for higher and greater things. This is to earn PHD in spiritual matters. This is to see that you still have a road ahead of you that you have yet to travel; you haven’t reached your destination yet. You haven’t amassed everything you are meant to amass. There is more, and you know you are capable of more. And because you are capable of more, you know you are destined for bigger and greater things than you have done thus far. This is exciting, so when you are confronted with seeming difficulties, appreciate that you know you can handle them and that they are taking you to greater destinations and discoveries. — Jim Larsen
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Knowings From The Silence: Simple Wisdom For an Enlightened Life, vol. 3
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Judgment: Quit Lying to Yourself!
Judgment Tarot Card: Be Honest With Yourself
The Judgment card of tarot may be reminding that sometimes you need to ask yourself, “Am I really happy with the current state of my life and how things are going?” And then you have to give yourself a deeply honest answer. You have to accept that maybe you have only talked yourself into believing that you are happy when in reality you have only told yourself that you are happy to appease whatever pain you are in. You are essentially lying to yourself and preventing yourself from healing and finding a true and honest happiness for yourself.
When you take an honest inventory of your feeling and discover your unhappiness, perhaps compare it to a happiness you can remember and see how it measures up. What is the discrepancy? This is self-assessment and self-judgment. It is a valuable tool in the healing process. Remember, to be successful at this healing, you must be completely honest with yourself. Lying to yourself won’t bring the results you need. — Jim Larsen
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Judgment: Ever Patient and Strong
The Judgment Tarot Card: Taking that Next Step
The Judgment tarot card reminds you that you have the opportunity to grow. You have the chance to take that next step. Are you taking it? Are you taking full advantage of the resources at your disposal? You have complete free will. Are you using this for the high road or the low? Are you using it to pursue highest and greatest good, or are you letting opportunities slip through your hands? Examine your circumstances. Appreciate the opportunities before you. Make the most of them. Aim high. Hear the call, answer the call. This is Judgment. Make it mean something. — Jim Larsen
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Judgement: What is Your Level of Contentment?
Everything you have done in your life has led to you being where you are right now as you read this. So, where are you?
Judgment: Awakening from Lethargy
Judgment Tarot Card: Waking Up
Sometimes the Judgment tarot card can be like this- have you ever felt like you are just waking up from a lengthy stretch of lethargy? For example, maybe there is something that has long interested you, and you have put a lot of time and energy into it. But then, others things came up and you just sort of let that other thing fall by the wayside. It’s not that you completely lost interest in, but rather that it became less of a priority. New interests and demands showed, and suddenly you could not prioritize it like you once could. It went on the back burner, as people like to say. Even though this thing stayed on your mind, you could not quite find the energy for it. It is like you fell asleep in the middle of it and are finally waking up again to it.
This wake up call is that Judgment piece of you telling you it’s time to get back to it. You can pick up where you left off if you like, but if it feels better to backtrack and make a new start somewhere in the middle, you can do that too. It is important here to remember, and this is what the Judgment card is telling you, dreams don’t necessarily die. Maybe they go on hold for however long, but they are revivable. So listen to that wake up call Judgment is giving you and dive back into the dreams you put on hold. —Jim Larsen