Justice, as card 11 (and thus reducing to 2, for 1 + 1 = 2) represents the Holy Idea of Enneagram type 2, which is Holy Will/Freedom, and also their virtue of Humility.
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What is Holy Will/Freedom anyway? Type 2s live in a sort of ‘give to get’ universe, where they try to fulfill everyone else’s (never-ending) needs in order to assure that their own (totally repressed) needs will be met. Not only are they acting as ‘agents of other’s fulfillment’ (David Daniels term), but almost as if they’re agents of the Universe itself. Their vice of Pride is around not having their own needs, but it’s even deeper than that; it’s a kind of pride around embodying what they perceive to be a divine law. They take care of others (did others ask? It doesn’t matter. “God” asked.) and they assure their own security. Give to get=pride.
For who knows Universal Will? And that’s where Justice comes in, to invite 2s to soften into Holy Will and Freedom.
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In ‘Meditations on the Tarot’, they say of the 11th Arcanum: “The totality of the card evokes the idea of law interposed between the free action of the individual will and the essence of being.....[the figure in Justice] is seated between two pillars: that of will (Jachin) and that of providence (Boaz).....the seat which is between the individual will of beings and the universal will of the Supreme Being.” And they go on to discuss the power of Justice to re-establish equilibrium “each time that the individual will sins against the universal will.”
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So, the “sin” here is pride, the assumption that you know best what is needed in this moment, that you alone can fill those needs. But in order to soften into Humility, the 2s virtue, they must know themselves. From ‘Meditations’: “One is not at all free when one judges or acts according to character or temperament; but one certainly is when one judges and acts according to the balance of Justice, or *conscience*.”
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Conscience is defined as inner voice, and that returns us to the High Priestess (card 2 of the Majors) and their invitation to 2s to listen deeply to their own hearts. Justice is deeply tied to High Priestess. “We must always act on the wisdom received from the inner self (the High Priestess principle)” says Rachel Pollack, in her chapter on Justice in ‘78 Degrees of Wisdom’. “If we do not understand ourselves, how can we make a free choice?”
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Only when 2s are deeply in touch with their inner voice—the ‘High Priestess principle’—can they reach Humility, which according to Helen Palmer is “the recognition of one’s exact needs and the natural inclination to take no more and no less than what is necessary...a person who knows [their] own needs [will have a] quality of giving in just the right proportion of what is required.”
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In just the right proportion.....that is deeply resonate with the scales of Justice, in perfect balance. “Justice, the practice of the balance....the beginning of a long path of the development of conscience—and therefore the growth of freedom.” (Meditations on the Tarot).
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Such a deep call for Type 2s to engage with the intertwined energies of Justice and High Priestess, to find the right proportion of giving, and, disavowed of the notion that they are the sole ‘agents of fulfillment’, finally find freedom.