Two cards in conversation

Justice + Seven of Swords

People often bring two cards with a question about what will happen. Olivia reads a pair as a conversation instead: what each card brings, and what appears between them.

  • A Major and a Minor

Five ways to read this pair

Try one lens at a time. Write a sentence for each before you read anyone else’s version.

  1. Story

    Read Justice first, then Seven of Swords, as two scenes of one story. What changes between them?

  2. Contrast

    Where do Justice and Seven of Swords pull in different directions, and what does each ask of you?

  3. One colours the other

    Let Seven of Swords describe the way of Justice, as an adjective describes a noun. Then swap them.

  4. A shared symbol

    No carved symbol is shared here. Look for a gesture, a direction or a colour the two images have in common.

  5. Number, suit and element

    A Major and a Minor: the Major can name the theme, the Minor shows where it turns up in ordinary days.

One reader’s version

Justice weighs actions and their consequences in plain view. Beside the Seven of Swords it turns attention to accountability: which of your choices you would be willing to explain openly, and what fairness would ask of the plan you are keeping quiet.

Written for the page of Seven of Swords