20172102_GLR CARDS E_BOOK

JUSTICE
JOURNEY / CARD NUMBER 8
The keywords associated with the traditional trump card JUSTICE are justice,
balance, and truth. The GLR JUSTICE card links those terms to the relationship
that can exist between consciousnessandthe unconscious.
Watch the two characters of the card, both three-quarter portraits with a curtain on
the right. At the bottom left, and proportionally representing one twelfth of the
collage, stands Richelieu. In the middle of the collage, at least three times bigger
than the dignitary stands the young Maja from the Maja and Celestina on a
Balcony by Goya. This represents the right proportion between consciousness
(Richelieu) and the unconscious (Maja). The JUSTICE card urges the readers to
regain some balance between unconscious drives and potentialities and a
consciousnessthat might be too self-repressive of the formers.
Maja’s balcony stands between two solid domes, those of the Palais Brongniart, or
else the Parisian Bourse. Richelieu’s palace is no less concrete: he stands in front of
the Palais-Royal, but its proportion on the card is less important than the palace of
Maja. I, too, associate Richelieu with the Sorbonne that he renovated, because
university is an important part of my consciousness. In the Palais-Royal is located
the Conseil d’Etat, which is the French supreme court for justice. The justice of
consciousness is that of reality, nobody escapes it. But truth and balance are never
given but to be sought for in the depth of our true aspirations, with the aeriality of
Maja’s angels and with the confidence and softness of her gaze. Which Richelieu is
that of the readers: a man of power, a religious man? Which vital sap nourishes
their Maja?
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