Judgement Tarot Year Card

A year of Judgement

Judgement holds a year of awakening. Something calls you, a vocation, a reckoning with the past, a sense of what you are growing into, and the year asks you to rise to it. Old matters may return for a final settling.

What the year asks

It asks you to review your life honestly, forgive what can be forgiven and answer the call you hear. The shadow is harsh self-judgement, or waiting for a sign that is already here.

Sitting with it

Write down what you feel called to, even if it seems too big. Make peace with one part of your past.

Questions for the year

• What am I being called to now?
• What from my past needs to be forgiven or settled?
• What would it mean to answer, not just listen?

Who has Judgement as a year card

Under Greer's method no birthday gives Judgement in 2026 or 2027. It last fell in 1989, for 1 birthdays, and next falls in 2056, for 1: December 31.

The card itself

A summons up from the life you've already finished.

If it is also your birth card

Judgement is also a birth card for some people. In the year it comes round as your year card, the theme you were born with is the one the year brings up.

Birth cards that include Judgement

• Judgement and The High Priestess · 20 · 2

Every year card

• The Magician · 1
• The High Priestess · 2
• The Empress · 3
• The Emperor · 4
• The Hierophant · 5
• The Lovers · 6
• The Chariot · 7
• Strength · 8
• The Hermit · 9
• Wheel of Fortune · 10
• Justice · 11
• The Hanged Man · 12
• Death · 13
• Temperance · 14
• The Devil · 15
• The Tower · 16
• The Star · 17
• The Moon · 18
• The Sun · 19
• Judgement · 20
• The World · 21
• The Fool · 22

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