Justice/Consequences

From The Bohemian Animal Tarot

Original Writing by Kathryn Ravenwood

In the above image we see a spider fortune teller sitting under the Scales of Justice. Fate has dealt a hand and the cards are on the table. She stares straight ahead, seeing the big picture while her fly visitor, entangled in the web, can see only a single card.

Our individual and collective lives are all woven together from the present, the past, and even the future. It is a tangled web indeed. Each of our lives is an individual web that is also a single strand on the Great Web of Life. We explore that Web with our human experiences and emotions. We experience setbacks, challenges, and triumphs along the way. When we hit a snag we can feel stuck, just like a fly caught in the spider’s web. When we persevere with right intention we find clarity and move forward from there. Justice has shown us the consequences our actions and hopefully we are more balanced and fair minded than before. The Scales of Justice remind us that when we take responsibility for our wrong doings we have the opportunity to make things right and restore some kind of balance.  The sword from which the scales hang reminds us that a higher truth always prevails. 

This Tarot card is associated with law, cosmic law, and Karma. Don’t we just love to think someone’s Karma will “get them” and that, surely, we will be redeemed by our own? The Great Web of Life is so vast and interconnected that we cannot possibly know who is due what. What we do know is that our actions create consequences. Our choices hold us accountable. Every intention, thought, and thing that we do builds our individual and collective Karma. Karma links us in the great chain of events that is constantly seeking divine balance and order. There are so many versions of truth; what seems fair for one is unjust to another. We all desire Justice and can be disappointed by its decisions. We have our prejudices and opinions about what we think is right. When Justice favors us we celebrate. When it goes against us we can experience anger and frustration. Each action contributes to a bigger result. It is all woven into the Great Web which abides by Cosmic Truth. 

Spider creates her web starting with intention released as a single strand of silk shooting into space to attach where she directs it. We create our own webs with intention, thoughts, motives, actions, even our subconscious awareness which weave the pattern and Karma of our life. Spider webs are beautiful, diverse and effective. Spiders catch prey in them, take them apart when they are damaged, and rebuild them all in graceful efficiency. How we navigate our web, and therefore the Great Web, is vital. Spider reminds us when we become entangled and trapped we can shoot out a new intention, take a different path, and make repairs to the existing pattern.

I would like to share a vision I have had on several occasions. It is not mine alone as I know others have seen the same thing.  A vast web reaches out across the universe to infinity - maybe it IS the universe. Each intersection of strands of the web is a junction. Some of them are lit with beautiful light of radiant colors. Some are dark. Each one of us holds a junction. It is our place in the grand order of life. It is up to us to turn on and maintain our light. When the entire web is lit, justice and unity will have been achieved.

May Justice and Truth guide you to weave your web well and may your light shine.

...Kathryn Ravenwood 11.24.2020