Justice
Lamed (ל)
Libra (Sign)
Path 22: Geburah → Tiphareth
Herb: Vervain
Upright
Fairness, truth, cause and effect, accountability.
Reversed
Dishonesty, unfairness, avoiding consequences.
What the Golden Dawn actually taught
Book T reads: “eternal justice and balance; strength and force, but arrested as in the act of Judgment.” It is cross-referenced to Strength as the same force held still rather than moving forward, and is more literal than RWS — explicitly invoking courts of law and legal trials.
Imagery & symbolism
Seated between two grey pillars, she holds an upright sword in one hand and a balanced scale in the other. Her gaze is level, neither merciful nor cruel — only exact.
Numerology
11 reduces to 2 — Justice reinforces itself: balance at both levels.
Also associated with
fairness, truth, balance, accountability, cause and effect