TemperanceTarot card meaning
Temperance is card 14 of the Major Arcana. In tarot it means balance, blending and healing. As a yes or no answer, it leans yes.
The middle path is not the boring one, it's the alchemical one. Temperance blends opposites into something better than either. Patience, moderation, one careful pour at a time.
In a yes or no reading: Yes · yes or no tarot → · Sagittarius horoscope →
- Arcana
- Major Arcana
- Astrology
- Sagittarius
- Number
- 14 · 14 → 5
What the card shows
An angel with open wings pours water between two cups, and the stream bends in a way water should not. One foot rests on land, the other in the water: both worlds at once, neither abandoned. A path runs back toward mountains where a crown of light waits. The card shows mixing as an art: the right amounts, at the right pace, until something new exists.
Temperance reversed
Excess somewhere, drought somewhere else. Reversed, Temperance points to a life out of proportion, too much of one thing standing in for enough of everything.
How to read a reversed card →Temperance in love
In love, Temperance is the slow blend: water passing from one cup to the other without spilling. It speaks of a relationship built with patience, of two different rhythms learning to meet, of calm after an intense stretch. If there was a fight, it is the card of the reconciliation that does not rush. If there is a new love, it says do not burn it.
Is Temperance a yes or a no?
Temperance answers yes, on a low flame. The angel pours water from one cup to the other without spilling a drop, one foot in the river and one on the bank. What you ask goes well if you blend, if you do not run to an extreme, if you give it its time. It is a yes of process, not of a single day.
Temperance and its neighbours in the arc
| Card | Keyword | Element | Yes or no |
|---|---|---|---|
| Death | ending | Major Arcana | No |
| Temperance | balance | Major Arcana | Yes |
| The Devil | attachment | Major Arcana | No |
| The Chariot | drive | Major Arcana | Yes |
Cards that often appear with it
- Death
The card before it in the major arc
- The Devil
The card after it in the major arc
- The Chariot
Its mirror from the other end of the arc
- Ace of Wands
The ace that speaks its element at street level
Number and correspondence
In the deck's old correspondences, Temperance belongs to Sagittarius.
Will this card find you tonight?
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