A Sense of Justice ~ Rune & Tarot for 26 Nov 2016

Justice, card 11 of the Major Arcana, and Fehu, the first rune of the Elder Futhark comprise today’s rune and tarot reading. A card of Libra, the Druid Priestess as judge sits holding a sword in one hand and scales in the other. Justice can be swift, yet fair. An owl, reflecting wisdom, sits to her right. Her sword pointing upward indicates balanced reasoning . As the eleventh card, it also represents the Master number of illumination.

Fehu as the sending rune manifests and/or sends productive energy. It can be used along with other runes to stimulate their action, particularly when included in a bindrune. It manifests wealth and psychic awareness. Success is achieved with Fehu as it increases abundance by advancing our goals. Expansive energy is available to us when Fehu is present in a divination or when used with intention in magickal workings.

The numerology is interesting because I’m not going to reduce 11 any further given its Master number status. Fehu’s number is 1, or impetus. 11 gives us illumination, so the numerology tells us that when rendering justice, we proceed from awareness and understanding before making our decision.

The Druidic Priestess renders justice with clarity and vision. She is unbiased and brings all things into balance, her judgment based on reason instead of reaction. With Fehu we have abundance energy at our fingertips. How we use it either fosters balance or chaos. But the presence of Justice suggests that we’ll make the right decision, one that’s based on balanced reasoning, honesty and integrity. We seek to understand, with decisions made born of compassion and dignity. The double edged blade shows us that any decisions can go either way, but with reason and clarity, they’ll surely reflect a balanced perspective.

Inherent in justice is responsibility. We want what’s right to happen. Our integrity is at stake as are the consequences of our decisions. Once made, we can’t always change course and lives can be altered, so acting with honor and integrity is necessary.

But as we all can see, there’s a lack of integrity in our world. Everything comes down to money and power. It’s rarely about doing the right thing, taking the easy solution instead. The problems we face are so simple on the one hand, yet we make them incredibly complex as we view this person or that group as the other. Because when someone is the other it’s easy to dismiss them.

We saw this sickening sense of otherness play out during our recent election. And now that the apparent winner is not locking anyone up, I wonder if the apparent winner’s supporters are feeling duped by their con artist in chief. We see the same vitriol playing out at Standing Rock where one female water protector apparently just lost her arm due to police violence. And now they’ve been told to leave. After all the violence they’ve experienced at the hands of those who should know better. They’ve been told to leave.

The apparent winner has money on the pipeline project in question, so we know where his loyalties lie. Certainly not with our clean water, and certainly not with Sophia Wilansky, who lost her arm to a concussion grenade. Where is her justice? And where will be ours when the aquifer is damaged by a pipeline leak?

We must stand firm because we all have so much to lose.

Our honor and integrity are all we really have in the end. If we come by our success dishonestly, we may have a comfortable lifestyle, but that’s all we have. Do we have to circle the drain to learn that we succeed when we do so together? We should be known for our sense of justice, not our lack thereof. Or is living in service to a higher sense of purpose or justice beyond us now?

Justice isn’t a sometime thing, it’s an all the time thing.

We are now and will forever be One Family.

Blessings to all.