Judgement (XX)

Waite, 1911 “The dead are rising from their tombs--a woman on the right, a man on the left hand, and between them their child, whose back is turned. But in this card there are more than three who are restored, and it has been thought worth while to make this variation as illustrating the insufficiency of current explanations.” The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part II, The Doctrine Behind the Veil.

Waite, 1911 “It is the card which registers the accomplishment of the great work of transformation in answer to the summons of the Supernal--which summons is heard and answered from within.”

Tap a motif on the picture, or a line below. Its note opens under the line, with the reading its author gave it.

1. Primary motif
2. 1The Angel and the Wingthe angel with the trumpet

An angel with red wings in the clouds sounds a trumpet hung with a banner bearing a red cross; grey figures rise from coffins on the sea with arms raised, a woman, a man and a child among them; the Angel as the central motif. By eye

Decoded: every motif is marked, and each mark carries the reading its author gave it, quoted from the text, or says that it is observed on the picture and not read. The composition, the picture read whole in our own words, comes with the entry.