RiccardoLS said:
One of the philosophical question is "what is Justice?".
What decied what is right and what's wrong?
Is it an ethical answer? Good vs Evil?
Is it a moral answer? Custom and accepted behavior vs unaccepted and aoutrageous?
Is it a karmic answer? You receive what you give. Maybe, would things weigth to same for different persons?
Is it a might makes right answer?
It is "just" to divide equally, or to divide in base to merit or need?
Justice is a very dangerous place to thread.
I think, in way, that is the reason justice is a child. I recall it has been one of the first cards to be decided. We wanted justice to be "innocent" and to be "blind". To be "wise" and to "see". Justice is a terrible weigth, and at the same time must remain pure (I mean "high" justice, as it would befit a major arcana). It is love and it is forgiveness, and yet it is not.
What we didn't want was the sword. Not here, not in the Fey shadow play.
I know I always get confused... but if it was easy to express with words we wouldn't need Tarot at all, wouln't we?
ric
p.s.edited to add:
I'm not trying to give answers. I don't have and yours are much better than mine.
This particular Fey has been coming up for me a lot recently so I have been trying to make sense of it so anything you say is gratefully accepted
I think there are two types of Justice:
The first is mankinds'. When we live in a society we accept the social contract and live according to those rules. There are certain penalties to pay for certain crimes and we accept those penalties if we commit those crimes. Justice is a penance to society, to make up for the wrongs we have done.
There is a second kind of Justice which is no man made it is the Justice of the Universe. I see it like a water table that has to keep level. The what you send out will come back to you Justice but that isn't always feasible because it doesn't always seem to work.
Yes, Justice is very weighty. I did jury service and felt very responsible because of the position I was in. I could be wrong and falsely judge another or I could be right and the others wrong. By being wrong I was changing someone's life for the worse yet by being correct I was permitting retribution for their wrongs.
Sometimes Justice is animalistic in its fairness. There is a 'right' that seems so wrong which is why the law is subject to change and variables. Yet the law of the universe shows no mercy only balance. I think that's where the blade of Justice comes in because a blade is cold and inhuman so it cannot be swayed by anything but the truth.
The Egyptians believed that the universe functioned as an ordered and rational place, according to cycles of predictability and regularity and these cycles were a constant. It was a very black and white place where good was rewarded and bad, punished.
Ma'at would weigh the deceased heart against either herself or a feather and Thoth would decide if their heart should be devoured by a demon and they died forever or whether they could go on into the other life. There were priests of Ma'at who meted out justice on earth and pharos were said to have 'done Ma'at' or upheld her laws.
Ma'at was to the Egyptians what logos was to the ancient Greeks and without her the universe would dissolve into chaos.