20-Judgment or Rejuvenation – Upright Rider Waite Deck

Your Chosen Card – Judgment or Rejuvenation Upright Rider Waite Deck

When upright, the Judgment card’s trumpet awakens you to a new phase of existence. Perhaps you are entering a period of rebirth and transformation that will require you to make an important decision. Having heard the call, are you ready to make the necessary changes and set out on the path of rejuvenation and renewal? Redemption requires the acceptance of responsibility for past behavior and a commitment to do things better next time.

Keywords Upright: A calling, awakening from slumber, a new era, judging and being judged, re-assessment, judgment day, reanimation, someone clamoring for your attention, stepping into a new life, a final reckoning, rebirth, resurrection, renewal, a last chance, release from the underworld, being reenergized, rising from the dead, forgiveness, entering another phase of existence, rising from one’s ashes, rescue, starting anew, a clean slate.

Key XX: Judgment (Aeon)
Myths/Archetypes: The Last Judgment. The Angel of Resurrection. The Avenging Angel. The phoenix rising from its ashes. Persephone being rescued from the underworld. The Tooth Fairy.
Astrology: Fire (Pluto in some modern decks). Both the element Fire and the dwarf planet Pluto are associated with purgation, renewal, and purification.
Numerology: 2 (High Priestess) = 1 + 1 (Justice or Strength) = 2 + 0 (Judgment)

Rider Waite: Change of position, renewal, outcome; another account specifies total loss though lawsuit; (R) weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity; also deliberation, decision, sentence.

When Judgment or Rejuvenation is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If Judgment or Rejuvenation is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Judgment or Rejuvenation is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for Judgment or Rejuvenation using cards from the Rider Waite Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.


Here are some snippets from a few of my favorite books

Complete Book of Tarot
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Complete Book of Tarot: The mind of a god behaves in ways beyond human understanding. To the human mind the prophecies at Delphi appeared ambiguous, full of double meanings and capable of contradictory interpretation. Nonetheless, the Oracle at Delphi gained a reputation for 100 percent accuracy. If an army general inquired about an impending battle, the Oracle might respond: ‘A great general will emerge triumphant.’ The military leader would then depart, muster his resources, plan a strategy, and enter the fray confident that a great general was assured victory. The Oracle, however, did not specify which great general would win the battle.

Tarot Books

Creative Tarot: The Golden Dawn actually didn’t last very long. Infighting and power plays, mostly by the male members, splintered the group. Its most famous member was perhaps the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, who remained interested in and engaged with magical systems until his death. The writer and magician Aleister Crowley is often associated with the group, but he was quickly ejected from its ranks for being a terrible person. (This is a fact, he was a terrible person. Look it up.) But two of its lesser-known members would spread the influence of the tarot far and wide: writer Arthur Edward Waite and artist Pamela Colman Smith.

Complete Book of Tarot: Myth 5: The Catholic Church banned tarot as a form of heresy and as dangerous black magic.

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Elements of the Psychic World: Cerato: unsure, no confidence in own judgement and intuition, seeks approval from others.