The Judgement is an Arcana in the Persona series. It is the twentieth numbered card in the Major Arcana, numbered XX20, following the Sun and preceding the World. It shares this number with the Aeon Arcana, which appears in some games in the Persona franchise.
A Tarot de Marseille Judgment cardA Rider-Waite-Smith Judgement card
In tarot, the Judgment is the twentieth of the 21 trump cards, which are called "Major Arcana" in esoteric usage. The imagery originates from Italian tarocchi decks, where it was originally called l'Angelo ("the angel"), now called il Giudizio. The Judgment card typically features an angel blowing the trumpet of Judgment Day, while people below have been resurrected.
Arthur Edward Waite lists the following divinatory meanings in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot: "Change of position, renewal, outcome. Another account specifies total loss though lawsuit. Reversed: Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity; also deliberation, decision, sentence."[1]
From Persona 3 onward, the the Judgement Arcana represents a pivotal set of events rather than a specific character.
Persona in the Judgement Arcana are typically related to the concept of Judgement, including Satan, who is generally considered aligned with Law in the Megami Tensei franchise. In Megami Ibunroku Persona, it is equivalent to the Herald race.
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Nomenclature
Names in Other Languages
Language
Name
Meaning
English
Judgement
Japanese
審判Shinpan
Judgment
Simplified Chinese
审判Shěnpàn
Judgment
Traditional Chinese
審判Shěnpàn
Judgment
French
Le Jugement
Judgment
German
Gericht
Judgment; Court
Italian
Giudizio
Judgment
Korean
심판審判Simpan
Judgment
Polish
Sąd Ostateczny
Last Judgment
Brazilian Portuguese
Julgamento
Judgment
Russian
СудSud
Judgment; Court
Peninsular Spanish
El Juicio
Judgment
Turkish
Mahkeme
Court
References
↑"The Greater Arcana and Their Divinatory Meanings", The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1922), Arthur Edward Waite. Published by William Rider & Son Limited. (2nd ed.) p. 286.