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XX - Judgement
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Jesus is resurrected, surrounded by worshippers ready for the Final Judgement. Angels herald his arrival on trumpets. God holds up an orb and book.

My Interpretation: Enlightenment. An acceptance of oneself and one's achievements in life. Standing ready for divine scrutiny, confident in the knowledge that one has lived a fair and just life. This card indicates an end, and a new beginning. (Reversed: Inaction, inertia and resistance to change. A hopeless attempt to fight the inevitable)

Edit notes to self: I've abandoned my original version to be more like the Rider-Waite card. I have kept a common medieval theme, though - the resurrection of Jesus, arising from his stone casket heralded by angels. I'd probably prefer to use the name 'The Last Judgement' in acknowledgment of the medieval theme, rather than the modern short name 'Judgement' although I'm not really that fussed about it. Still to do - quite happy with it.

Sources:

Base Pic: Unknown Flemish Master, (active c 1400); Resurrection c. 1400 Tempera on wood, 33.1 x 21.2 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp.

Angel Leading People and Groundcover Plants: Dieric Bouts the Elder, Flemish painter (b. cca. 1415, Haarlem, d. 1475, Leuven); The Way to Paradise, 1450 Oil on wood, 115 x 69.5 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille.

Woman Praying and Trumpeting Angels: Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. cca.1440, Seligenstadt, d. 1494, Bruges); Last Judgment Triptych (left wing) 1467-71 Oil on wood, 223 x 72 cm Muzeum Narodowe, Gdansk.

Parchment Text Panel: Unknown Illuminators, England; The Aberdeen Bestiary (Aberdeen University Library MS 24), written and illuminated around 1200. Aberdeen University, Scotland.

Gilt Border: Conrad Witz, Swiss painter (b. cca 1400, Rottweil, d. cca. 1445, Basel); King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba 1435 Panel, 84 x 79 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin.