Welcome to Tarot for Scholars, a resource that helps you weave the deep wisdom of tarot into your daily life and work. In each post, we offer reflections and prompts for exploring your own inner world and unlocking the unique creative power of your scholarship.
Judgement
About this card
A complete transformation or change of state. Awakening, ascent, recovery, or evolution into a higher, fuller, or healthier version of yourself. The revitalization of a snake shedding its old skin. Discovering or realizing a truth that has gone unacknowledged, that you’re now ready to act upon. The Judgement card can refer to your own awakening or a call to action that you deliver to others.
Other interpretations
Margy’s cards, clockwise from top left: Radiant Tarot; New Chapter Tarot; Cosmic Slumber Tarot; Shining Tribe Tarot; Elemental Tarot; Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea; Spolia Tarot; Tarot of the Spirit.
Helen’s cards, clockwise from top left: Moon & Stars Tarot; Light Seer’s Tarot; Japaridze Tarot; Canes Arcanae; Star Spinner Tarot; Muse Tarot; Tarot of Mystical Moments; Forest of Enchantment Tarot.
Questions and prompts
The different versions of the Judgement tarot card offer us an especially wide range of imagery with varying connotations. Do you connect with the Rider Waite Smith version, or do you prefer another? How does your preferred version of the Judgement card shape your sense of the card’s meaning?
Reflect on the positive ways that your scholarly process has transformed you over time. For example, has it made you braver, wiser, kinder, humbler?
How do you hope your scholarship will transform your audience? What feedback have you received about how your work has already transformed others?
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Yours in scholarship,
HELEN SWORD is a scholar, poet, award-winning teacher, and founder of the WriteSPACE, an international writing community with members in 30+ countries. Her research-based books, articles, and online tools empower scholarly writers to write more clearly, confidently, prolifically, and with greater pleasure.
Visit Helen’s website here.
MARGY THOMAS is the creator of ScholarShape, a body of work dedicated to elucidating the patterns of Story-Argument across genres, disciplines, and life itself. Through services and DIY resources, Margy helps scholars use Story-Argument patterns to design their work — and to find its deeper meaning and higher purpose.
Visit Margy’s website here.
