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Today’s Tarot: Judgement
The past is the price we pay for the second chance each new moment gives.
And it’s a reasonable one. The past doesn’t disappear, but how emotionally attached you are to it is up to you. If it is a cherished memory – then by all means cherish it. If it is a painful, harmful one, you are perfectly free to let the attachment go.
I’ve always wrangled with the Judgement card in this form, with all the christian religious imagery here. If familiarity breeds contempt, my evangelical upbringing has bred a great deal of contempt for that ideology. The only good thing about the political climate in America since 2015 is now everyone can see what we-who-left have been talking about. Now everyone knows how toxic and insane evangelicals and Christian nationalists are. So dear everyone who said I was over-reacting when I said Republicans and Evangelicals were a bunch of fascists (middle finger) I TOLD you so.
BUT that is also an example in point for the energy of this card today. I can’t pretend that my parent’s and extended family’s religion isn’t a steaming pile of toxic, harmful bullshit. BUT I can choose to make my life a secular sanctuary, free from religion as much as a functioning adult living in America in 2026 can make it.
Alan Watts’ observation rings perennially true “You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.”
And THAT is the aspect of the Judgement card that steps forward today: Second Chances.
The judgement has been made (you have decided some aspect of past experience is unhealthy, or somehow unworthy of including in your current circumstances)
The dues have been paid (you lived it, learned from it and made the reasoned choice to shift your perspective)
Another chance is in hand (every moment is a fresh start and a chance be a different person than you were five minutes ago.)
Here is to reasonable second chances.
See you at the next sip
Sage Sips / TaoCraft Tarot 