Justice and The Hierophant

The law and the institution. Justice weighs the specific case; The Hierophant carries the rule that existed before the case. The tradition reads them together as a situation where the formal position and the fair position are both in play, and may not agree.

Marriage, and the paperwork around it. Also read for the point at which a private arrangement acquires a public form.

Contracts, compliance, formal process. Associated with situations where being right is not the same as being correct procedurally.

Both cards are about consequence. The pairing rewards reading the terms rather than assuming the fair outcome is the automatic one.