11 - Justice

The Fool listens attentively as the Hermit proclaims that all is chaos despite human attempts to impose order.

Balance, fairness, virtue and honour are the best that could be striven for, he says. But to try and calculate a just outcome was difficult if not impossible.

He produces an abacus to demonstrate a precise way of solving a problem - but smoke blows up from the hearth and obscures his vision as he moves the beads.

He becomes annoyed and forgets what he was trying to prove.

Fate does not understand fairness.

 

The Journey Chronicle

0 - The Fool sets out

1 - The Magician

2 - The High Priestess

3 - The Empress

4 - The Emperor

5 - The Hierophant

6 - The Lovers

7 - The Chariot

8 - Strength

9 - The Hermit

10 - The Wheel of Fortune

11 - Justice

12 - The Hanged Man

13 - Death

14 - Temperance

15 - The Devil

16 - The Tower

17 - The Star

18 - The Moon

19 - The Sun

20 - Judgement

21 - The World

 

 

© Mel Bray