Temperance upright
The angel pours water between two cups in a stream that isn't quite physically possible. One foot on land, one foot in the stream.
Temperance is the alchemy of integration - patience, moderation, the willingness to let two things become a third.
Healing, the right dosage, the gradual gradient between extremes.
Temperance reversed
Reversed, the balance has slipped - toward excess, toward starvation, toward forcing what wants time.
Slow down. Lower the heat.
Keywords
- balance
- moderation
- patience
- integration
- alchemy
Where this reading comes from
Meaning paraphrased from A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), which is in the public domain - reworded rather than reproduced.
Common questions
- What does Temperance mean?
- Blending, the patient art of getting the mix right. The angel pours water between two cups in a stream that isn't quite physically possible. One foot on land, one foot in the stream.
- What does Temperance mean reversed?
- Reversed, the balance has slipped - toward excess, toward starvation, toward forcing what wants time.
- Is Temperance a good card to draw?
- Temperance is one of the twenty-two Major Arcana, which mark structural turns rather than day-to-day detail. Tarot convention treats no card as simply good or bad - the reading depends on the question and the position it falls in.
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