A winged angel blows a trumpet hung with a red-cross flag from the clouds. Below, naked men, women and children rise from open coffins floating on water, arms raised toward the sky, snowy mountains beyond.

Major Arcana · XX

Judgement

  • awakening
  • calling
  • reckoning
  • renewal

Leans yes

Upright meaning

The trumpet sounds and the sleepers rise. Judgement is the moment you cannot un-know a thing — the call you have been ignoring, finally answered.

 (reversed)

Reversed meaning

Avoiding the call. The trumpet is patient but not silent.

Advice

Answer the thing you have been pretending not to hear.

Yes or no?

Judgement leans yes in a yes or no reading.