Major Arcana · XI

The Justice Year

Air

A Justice year wants the truth from you, even when it costs something. It's the year of the honest look: your actual part in the mess instead of the case for your innocence, the conversation where you stop spinning it and say what happened. Something unclenches when you do. Integrity is the through-line, the match between what you do and what you know is right, and this year keeps testing it. You don't owe anyone perfection. You can name harm where it lives, meet what's real, and be answerable without looking away.

What to do with a Justice yearTell the truth this year, even the expensive kind, and try writing it before you say it out loud. Look honestly at your own part without spiraling into shame, and name what real repair would actually take.

Your twelve months

Each month steps one place forward through the cycle. The same twelve, in the same order, for any Justice year.

January
The Hanged OneFebruary
DeathMarch
TemperanceApril
The DevilMay
The TowerJune
The StarJuly
The MoonAugust
The SunSeptember
JudgementOctober
The WorldNovember
The FoolDecember
The Magician

Element weather

How the twelve months balance across the elements.

4Fire months3Water months3Air months2Earth months

The rest of the cycle

The nine Majors a Justice year doesn’t touch.

The High PriestessThe EmpressThe EmperorThe HierophantThe LoversThe ChariotStrengthThe HermitWheel of Fortune
The full year-ahead reading

The whole Justice year, woven

This page is the theme. The full reading walks all twelve months in the Almanac’s voice, reads the element weather, brings in how your Bearing meets the year, and closes with the skills and reflection questions a Justice year calls for.

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