TEMPERANCE

TEMPERANCE 

ASTROLOGICAL: Sagittarius
PLANET: jupiter
Element: fire

14 - Temperance

Key Words: Recalibrating, trial and error, self-control, manifestation.

Upright:

  • Recalibrating. Resetting.

  • Moderation and balance in all things.

  • Trial and error.

  • Awareness of where you need to pull back or push forward.

  • Uniting balance between contrasting emotions, thoughts, and elements.

  • Self-control.

  • Apply lessons learned.

  • The ability to combine different sides of life.

  • A card of behavior and not concepts.

  • Doing the right thing which is often doing nothing.

  • Taking a lump of coal and turning it into a lump of gold.

Reversed:

  • Blocking upright energy.

  • Resisting.

  • Inability to take life as it comes.

  • A warning that you may have allowed your life to become fragmented.

  • Sliding from one extreme to the other.

  • Reminder to calm down and avoid extremes.

Symbolism:

  • The road: The road of return, the road back home.

  • Water flowing between the cups: Life flowing.

  • Angels feet: One on land (the real world) and one in the water (the unconscious).

  • Land: Manifestation, actuality.

  • Eagle: Scorpio, the unconscious.

  • Orange Triangle: Spirit rises from within the material world.