beanu said:
I treat the sequence of Tarot majors as the "descent",
with our attempts to rise again being the "ascent".
For this, you need to read the sequence backwards.
However, my theories are more complex, and end up on the tree of life on the spheres, so the concept of a single path through it all becomes meaningless.
I see
Temperance in Netzach
Justice is in Tipharet, the center that influences everything
Strength is in Geburah
Hermit (assuming he is Wisdom) in Chesed
How does that fit for you?
Hi Beanu. Thanks, especially since I'm not too well-versed in the Kabbalah (I had to bring out a diagram to see the points you mentioned). Weird, though, here, temperance is between Tiphereth and Yesod, Justice between eburah and Tiphereth, etc.
I guess the point I was trying to make earlier is that, following Plato's Republic, the three virtues he mentioned there are Temperance, Strength and Wisdom. Justice being, not a virtue in itself, but a "working fulfillment" of each virtue respective of the caste they're associated with (e.g. workers have a tendency for intemperance-vice, and temperance-virtue. Workers follow a just path in life by striving for temperance).
Given this scheme, I feel that Justice, if you follow that way of thinking, would have to have the "outsideness" attributed to the Fool, both removed and present in the entire Majors, not part of the sequence itself (as he has no number) but ever there. Come to think of it, "outsideness" is also a quality relating to his eidos!
I am not suggesting that the Fool be representative of Plato's Justice! Though I can see perhaps Socratic association with it (openness to wonder, potential, "unsophisticatedness").