While most decks consider this card to be called Justice with its associated blind goddess weighing guilt and innocence and implying legal action and the courts, the Crowley deck takes a more Karmic view and associates the card with a different type of balance.
In the scales of this goddess are Alpha and Omega, creation and destruction and the beginning and the end. She does not just judge the querent, she judges the world, but her title of Adjustment hints at the solution to her riddle, it is balance. She is depicted as a masked dancer, balanced on tiptoe amidst the spheres of the many dimensions. It is a multi-dimensional balance she demonstrates and is also reflected in the Magician card as to how he travels and keeps juggling.
She suggests that the way to move forward on the path is by keeping things balanced on every level available to the querent and avoid extremes in either the positive or the negative. Both the Saint and the Sinner are off balance through their propensity for good and evil, but a balanced neutrality between these extremes can help one reconcile the effects of Karma. Objectively the Universe has no standards for good and evil anyway, and these are a localized and very human judgement, but going to extremes will always disrupt the spiritual practice of the querent.
Balance will help the practitioner to avoid complication and interference as well as extreme effects of Karma, which in some sense is just the illusion of cause and effect. While cause and effect is true and relevant in the four-dimensional world we inhabit, and the foundation of science, in the higher dimensions this rule breaks down as time ceases to become linear. Without linear time there can be no cause and effect, so things are ruled by harmony and balance.
This card’s weapon is a sword with two lunar crescents at the hilt, indicating her judgments are swift and precise, and her headdress of a cobra’s hood shows her completion of the Kundalini awakening. The colors of the spheres, alternating bluish and black indicate the ebb and flow of the fluid through which she moves. The diamond shape she occupies reinforces the feminine nature of this process. This card suggests that adjusting to the ebb and flow of positive and negative forces is a necessary step for progression on the journey.
