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Judgement (XX), or in some decks spelledJudgment, is atarot card, part of theMajor Arcana suit usually comprising 22 cards.
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The traditional scene is modeled afterChristian imagery of theResurrection andLast Judgment. Anangel is depicted among the clouds blowing a greattrumpet, from which hangs theflag of St. George, which references the1 Corinthians 15.[3] A group ofresurrected people (man, woman, and child) of sallow complexion stand, arms spread, looking up at the angel in awe. The Sleeping Dead are emerging fromcrypts or graves, calling back to theRevelation 20, where the sea gives up its dead.[4] There are snow-covered mountains in the background indicating a winter theme, similar toThe Hermit, as a symbolical ending.
InAleister Crowley'sThoth Tarot, Judgement is referred to asThe Aeon and includes pictorial representations ofNuit,Hadit andRa-Hoor-Khuit andHarpocrates.[citation needed]
According toA. E. Waite's 1910 bookPictorial Key to the Tarot, the Judgement card is associated with:
Change of position, renewal, outcome. Another account specifies total loss though lawsuit. Reversed: Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity; also deliberation, decision, sentence.[5]
Media related toJudgement (Major Arcana) at Wikimedia Commons
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