Adjustment/Justice

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This new moon in Pisces, what’s come up for me are the 2 of swords and Adjustment cards. It makes sense to me that they arrive today to invite pointed attention to the archetypes of Justice. They led me to thumb through a translation of the Orphic Hymns, where I’ve found the Hymns to Justice and to Dike. I got curious about Dike and learned that she’s an iteration of the Justice figure embodied, in some Greek myths another name for Astraea.

from the Tabula Mundi by M.M. Meleen.

In a time of significant, serious Adjustment, the hymn to her seems a helpful work of art to engage with and I’m compelled to share it.

I sing of the all-seeing eye of comely and radiant Dike, who is seated upon the sacred throne of lord Zeus. From heaven you watch the lives of the many human races you crush the unjust with just retribution, matching things lawless through the truth of equality. For whenever base opinions prevail in difficult verdicts, because men wish more than is fair, you intervene and rouse justice against her foes. An enemy of the unjust, you are a gentle goddess to the just. O goddess, come evenhanded to thoughts that are noble, until that fated day descends on my life. (Athanassakis/Wolkow translation)

I tried out speaking it aloud. You may find that it serves you, too.