ív́S

iūs

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From Proto-Italic *jowos,

from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-, an extended form of the root *h₂ey- (the source of aevum and iuvenis)

With realignment comes reappraisal

As soon as the reversal is underway

So is the remodelling of this here life

Ordeals that were not in our realm resurface

Only not to carry the same fatalist weight.

易 for Ease

Simplifying to the end of simplicity

— aequanimitās —

Justice by Kerri Snook, from The Meraki Tarot.

Justice, card of balance.

VIII / XI

from Old French justise, justice (Modern French justice), from Latin iūstitia (“fairness, righteousness, equity”), from iūstus (“just”), from iūs (“right”), from Proto-Italic *jowos, perhaps literally "sacred formula", a word peculiar to Latin (not general Italic) that originated in the religious cults, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew- (straight, upright; law, justice, right) a back-formation from the noun *h₂óyu ~ *h₂yéw-, from the root *h₂ey- (“vital force, life”)

cf. योस् • (yós) welfare, health, happiness

The restoration of balance and harmony can be felt in the serenity and intensity coming from the stable blossoming floral. Central to the balance of scales lays the sword of assertive action. Though integrated into the beauty of justice, the sword can be used at times of injustice, to correct an imbalance.

In the scales, there is light and dark, positive and negative, with everything — and only when we focus and be true to ourselves — is when we can combine the two together to bring us into balance. Even the most beautiful and enticing can be the right or wrong thing for us depending on where we stand at present and where we intend to go on our journey. Let us reflect and restore our equilibrium.  As we think of what justice means within our lives and the world we live in, we can also think about the karmic justice that lives more in the intangible realm of our system. With every cause, there is an effect and we must be respectful to ourselves and others as we move through our lives, crossing paths of others and aligning ourselves with our true balance of harmony.

The energizing fossil for Justice is petrified wood.

It brings in the elements of structure, order, truth and reason.

Old Latin alphabet

Latin included 21 different characters. The letter ⟨C⟩ was the western form of the Greek gamma, but it was used for the sounds /ɡ/ and /k/ alike, possibly under the influence of Etruscan, which might have lacked any voiced plosives. Later, probably during the 3rd century BC, the letter ⟨Z⟩ – unneeded to write Latin properly – was replaced with the new letter ⟨G⟩, a ⟨C⟩ modified with a small vertical stroke, which took its place in the alphabet. From then on, ⟨G⟩ represented the voiced plosive /ɡ/, while ⟨C⟩ was generally reserved for the voiceless plosive /k/. The letter ⟨K⟩ was used only rarely, in a small number of words such as Kalendae, often interchangeably with ⟨C⟩.