Temperance
Major Arcana
Meanings
- balance
- peace
- patience
- moderation
- calm
- tranquillity
- harmony
- serenity
Meanings Reversed
- imbalance
- excess
- extremes
- discord
- recklessness
- hastiness
Other Meanings
- bringing opposites together
- moderating your actions or emotions
- finding middle ground
- reaching compromises
- synthesizing solutions that please everyone involved
- using the old to make something new
Other Meanings Reversed
- going to extremes
- disrupting group efforts
- ignoring healthy approaches to life
- becoming an addict
- practicing gluttony
- tearing something or someone apart
- breaking alliances
Meanings
- blending
- synthesis
- mediation
- combination
- harmony
Fortunes
- Someone's using drugs or alcohol to excess
- It's time to get back on that diet
Questions
- How can I avoid extremes?
- What does everyone involved have in common?
- How might combining familiar things help me create something new?
- Element
- Sagittarius
- Arche Type
- The Mediator
- Numerology
- 14 = 1 + 4 = 5 (catalyst, instability, confrontation)
- Hebrew Alphabet
- Samekh/Foundation/60
- Spiritual
- The angel seen here may be the goddess Iris. By extension, priests, priesthoods, or the transfigured Christ.