Judgement from The Peculiar Tarot deck by @witchy-marie
The task I have decided to take on is working on my judgement of myself and others. Personal and interpersonal judgements have often been the work of internalized biases and prejudices.
In times of true choice points or in critical high alert/high attention/critical spaces, discernment (not judgement) is the key to survival. The reason behind this is that in discernment there is simply no room for all of the human baggage. All options are viewed through the objective of the parasympathetic nervous system.
So a judgement based on perceptions will never get me into a situation where I am truly non emotionally invested. But what about the positives of something like judgement? I think of a tarot card in the major arcana. The majors are neither good nor bad and thus paradoxically must possess something positive as well.
The role of judgement comes into play when I (myself) am not the one on the stand. The means that I have no personal claim to the supposed spoils of war. Judgement must only come when I (myself) am using judgement to decide the outcome of something outside of my world. Sorting into a taxonomy is a good description of the judgment I am pertaining to.
How do I know when I am unconsciously judging something, myself, or situation? Writing this was the first step for me. Well no, realizing that I needed to change this behavior/habit was. Asking for help was the second and only now is writing this becoming the third step. Have a well conceived meaning of judgement gives me a good set of parameters to which I can work into.
As far as other exercises to help me along the path? Meditation will be key as well as a table top demo of some kind of judgement practice that I intend to work into my life. Sorting coins comes to mind and I plan to write about my experiences working with a currency that is losing it’s value monetarily as well as symbolically.
Withdrawing from people, ideas, places where I am thrown into a judgmental emotional pull is another. A friend relayed a story to me where they witnessed a fire in a casino and many of the gamblers risked the fire in order to stay at the table while the fire lapped at the building around them.
Spending less time away from electronics ad the computer where everything is designed to elicit a response might be my casino and hopefully with some good work on self I can leave the burning table.
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