{Balance}[2nd January 1988]

[Redbook4:279][19880102:2012b]{Balance}[2nd January 1988]

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Tarot VIII, Justice, at M~ (Outer Circle), shows a throned* (and/or winged?**) female figure holding a sword vertically and a pair of scales (or a balance). (The back of the throne is a lower arc or hemisphere.) She may perhaps be seen in the context both of Reason (and Analytical thought) at M~, and of the progression on the Outer Circle through U~ (Complication)[,] A~ (Distraction, Anger), J~ (Fragmentation), Anxiety), and the G~ (Revolution) – R~ (Simplification) – +C†I~ (Crisis) arc of Schizophrenia.***

It is worth recalling that the link of the Circles with Schizophrenia arises out of the gradual awakening of a 'second person' – broadly, a 'feminine principle'**** – as the 'masculine'-dominated Individual passes round the Outer Circle; and, on the Inner Circle, the conception and birth of a 'third person' into whom these two are to be fused.#* This process is not only an inner experience but may be reflected in the external World as well.

*This is the only card on Outer and Inner Circles, i.e. of T.VI – XXI, showing a throne – [and it is] where Thrones belong in the Angelic hierarchy. (cf. [[Redbook4:144-145][19871020:2058b]{Angelic Hierarchies [continued (20)]}[20th October 1987] ] p145)

**{(but ref wings see [next entry[Redbook4:280-281][19880102:2012c][{Tarot of the Angels}][2nd January 1988],] p281)}

***[See [Redbook4:225-229][19871214:2010c]{Schizophrenia (1)}[14th December 1987] ]

****(!)

#{-(↑?)?}[Possibly referring to last previous entry re unfinished Fusion Child fn. (See next fn.)]

#*[cf. [[Redbook1:265A,297A-I;2:1A-1G][19730501:0000][The Wind, the Edge of the Sea, and Fusion Child][To 1st May 1973]]

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