Judgement as Intentions: To Make It Right, or to Make the Call

Written by Chaya the Medium.

Judgement as intentions is a plan that follows a reckoning. Here is what I would read in it, upright and reversed, and why it often means contact.

If you want the short answer, I would read Judgement as intentions that have been decided and are about to be acted on. In an intentions position the card suggests the person has looked back over what has been between you, reached a conclusion, and means to do something about it: speak, apologise, return, or close. The intention is clear and it is coming. What it says is not in the card.

This is the figures rising at the trumpet. The person has heard it. They intend to answer, and the answer is on its way.

Judgement upright as intentions

Tina Gong's Judgement guide at Labyrinthos associates the upright card with reflection, reckoning, awakening and a calling. When the card lands in a position that asks what someone intends toward you, I read those meanings as the shape of their plan rather than as a promise about what they will do. Feelings and intentions are different questions; Judgement as feelings covers the first, and this page covers the second. The Major Arcana overview at Biddy Tarot is a useful second reference.

Upright, I read Judgement as a person who intends to act on a realisation about you: to say the thing, to make amends, to make the decision they have been circling. They have done the honest review. What follows will be direct, and the person tends to mean it.

What I would not read into it is comfort. Judgement is honest to the point of starkness, and the conclusion the person has reached may not be the one you want. What you can count on is that they intend to act on it.

What the card does not tell you

The card does not confirm the decision favours you, that the person's reckoning matches your memory of events, or that acting on it means coming toward you. No card lets a reader see another person's plans. What a card can do is describe the kind of intention that fits the person's behaviour, and give you something to check against what they actually do.

Judgement reversed as intentions

Reversed, Judgement as intentions describes the call heard and not answered: a person who knows what they intend toward you and cannot bring themselves to act, or who judges themselves too harshly to believe they are allowed to. It can also describe an intention to avoid the reckoning altogether.

In your own question, ask whether the person seems to know something and be sitting on it, or whether they seem to feel unworthy of what they want with you. A reversed card as intentions is a prompt to compare what is said with what is done, not a diagnosis of bad faith.

Judgement as an ex's intentions

Asked about an ex, Judgement as intentions is one of the few cards I would read as a real likelihood of contact: they have reviewed the past, reached a conclusion, and intend to say something. It may be an apology, a reopening or a final close. All three are Judgement, and the card does not rank them. My guide to asking a psychic whether an ex will come back explains what a reading can and cannot say about that question.

Judgement as a new person's intentions

For someone new, this card describes sudden clarity about you: they have realised you matter and intend to act on it. It is a strong, serious card for a beginning. Give the person room to answer their own call, because they will.

What their intentions look like in action

Look for a decisive change: a long silence broken, a conversation clearly prepared for, a sense of a made-up mind. A Judgement intention arrives as an announcement. If nothing has been announced, the trumpet has not sounded yet, or the person is holding the reversal.

What to record before drawing again

Keep three short notes: the question you asked, what the person might have realised, and what you want to say if they come to you with it. The third note is worth having ready.

For comparison, the Wheel of Fortune as intentions and Death as intentions describe different intentions. The Judgement card meaning page covers the card in full, and Judgement as a person and Judgement as a yes or no cover the other questions people most often ask of it. For a personal interpretation, my guide to a love psychic reading online explains how I work, and the three-card tarot listing and customer reviews are worth reading before deciding whether to order.