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It is so good to see a Judgement card that knows how to spell the word "Judgement"! I am biassed to judge it favourably already.
And this is one of the prettiest (yes, I chose the word advisedly) cards in the deck. It bears looking at, just for the sake of it.
At the base of the card, we see just the upper crust of a planetary curve. This is overlaid with calm water, and the sparkles on the crests of the ripples do double-duty as stars, planets and galaxies of various shapes in the depths of outer space. Standing on the planet and backlit so as to seem to glow, the shadowy and translucent figure of a robed long-haired man holds his arms open, palms up, to us in the universal gesture of love and acceptance. An explosion of light forms the top of his head. Above and to either side of him, in the eerie blue gas, are three dark, gas-free spaces reminiscent of a man's head and shoulders, and each of them has a blazing star to the left (their right). The effect is of a healer-spirit surrounded by three guides.
The card is subtitled "The Multiverse" and Kay details the theory that black holes in our universe could be the seeds of new universes, just a the standing figure could be the parent from which the other three figures grew. It is a time of revelation, of the unknown becoming known, according to Kay.
I love the card, but to me it is a protective, loving card on at least a visual level. I have never experienced Judgement as a protective, loving card before. To me, Judgement, is the harsh light of day finding its way into the darkest corners of our mind, our emotions and our pasts: all the cobwebs and corpses that other humans will never see are seen by the Judgement Angel (who is, ultimately, ourselves) and the card indicates a period or periods in our life when we call ourselves to account for one or more wrongs we have done, wrongs we will never be called to account for in life. Like the time I ... <starts sweating> ... no, let's not go there. See what I mean? that is what Judgement is, to me. And this card is too NICE! You expect that kind of gentleness and forgiveness from the Temperance Angel, not from Judgement!
You can argue that a person who has lived right can expect their own Judgement to be merciful. But I've lived right. I'd like to think the bad things I've done have all been mistakes, errors of Judgement, so to speak. But that doesn't let me off the inner hook when those times in my life arrive when the Judgement card comes calling my name. Most of the time I can live with those very same memories with equinamity, but just sometime they burn. Just sometimes an inner Singularity in a black hole of unawareness might explode into another universe of writhing, white-hot consciousness.
And this is one of the prettiest (yes, I chose the word advisedly) cards in the deck. It bears looking at, just for the sake of it.
At the base of the card, we see just the upper crust of a planetary curve. This is overlaid with calm water, and the sparkles on the crests of the ripples do double-duty as stars, planets and galaxies of various shapes in the depths of outer space. Standing on the planet and backlit so as to seem to glow, the shadowy and translucent figure of a robed long-haired man holds his arms open, palms up, to us in the universal gesture of love and acceptance. An explosion of light forms the top of his head. Above and to either side of him, in the eerie blue gas, are three dark, gas-free spaces reminiscent of a man's head and shoulders, and each of them has a blazing star to the left (their right). The effect is of a healer-spirit surrounded by three guides.
The card is subtitled "The Multiverse" and Kay details the theory that black holes in our universe could be the seeds of new universes, just a the standing figure could be the parent from which the other three figures grew. It is a time of revelation, of the unknown becoming known, according to Kay.
I love the card, but to me it is a protective, loving card on at least a visual level. I have never experienced Judgement as a protective, loving card before. To me, Judgement, is the harsh light of day finding its way into the darkest corners of our mind, our emotions and our pasts: all the cobwebs and corpses that other humans will never see are seen by the Judgement Angel (who is, ultimately, ourselves) and the card indicates a period or periods in our life when we call ourselves to account for one or more wrongs we have done, wrongs we will never be called to account for in life. Like the time I ... <starts sweating> ... no, let's not go there. See what I mean? that is what Judgement is, to me. And this card is too NICE! You expect that kind of gentleness and forgiveness from the Temperance Angel, not from Judgement!
You can argue that a person who has lived right can expect their own Judgement to be merciful. But I've lived right. I'd like to think the bad things I've done have all been mistakes, errors of Judgement, so to speak. But that doesn't let me off the inner hook when those times in my life arrive when the Judgement card comes calling my name. Most of the time I can live with those very same memories with equinamity, but just sometime they burn. Just sometimes an inner Singularity in a black hole of unawareness might explode into another universe of writhing, white-hot consciousness.