1. Tarot
2. Card meanings
3. Judgement

Major Arcana · XX

Judgement

• change of position
• renewal
• outcome

Upright meaning

Renewal and a call to rise. Waite lists change of position, renewal and outcome: a moment of reckoning with yourself and a fresh start.

Reversed meaning

Reversed, Waite gives deliberation and decision, alongside hesitancy. A prompt to make the decision you have been weighing.

• deliberation
• decision

Symbolism

An angel blows a trumpet from the clouds; figures rise with arms open below.

Group

Major Arcana

Waite’s name

The Last Judgment

Element, astrology

Not given by Waite, so we give none

Source

Our own plain-English summary of A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1911), Part II §2 (symbolism); Part III §3 (divinatory meanings). The keywords are Waite’s own words. Waite’s fortune-telling lists also contain harsher terms; we keep to the reflective readings he gives and never state an event as certain.

Tarot is a tool for reflection, not a prediction of fixed outcomes. This is not medical, legal or financial advice.