Upright
judgment · power · command · authority · militant intelligence · law · offices of the crown
Reversed
cruelty · perversity · barbarity · perfidy · evil intention
He sits in judgment, holding the unsheathed sign of his suit. He recalls, of course, the conventional symbol of justice in the Major Arcana. While he may represent this virtue, he is more aptly the power of life and death, granted by his office.