Major Arcana · XX
Judgement — tarot meaning
reckoning, awakening, calling
Upright
An awakening call. The past is reckoned with and a truer life answers; rise and respond.
Reversed
A call ignored — self-judgement that keeps you from rising.
In the Papus Tarot, 1909
Le Jugement — Judgement · Hebrew letter ר Resh
Papus: the renewal, the passage of the whole man from one condition to another. Martinists read reintegration itself — the return announced.
In the Oswald Wirth Tarot, 1889
Le Jugement — Judgement · Hebrew letter ר Resh
Wirth reads XX as the raising up: the tombs open by themselves. It is a rebirth in this life, the seeker recalled to a work larger than his own affairs.
Shown from the 1909 William Rider & Sons deck (public domain). A card is read in relation to the question and the cards around it; these meanings are a starting point, not a verdict.