Temperance

Temperance

Possible keywords: Moderation, emotional calm, harmony, balance

After the polarity in the Lovers card we find another variation in Temperance. The word comes from the Latin temperare meaning “to mix” — it’s moving in with your lover, fusing two individual lives to make something new. It’s the middle road, the third option,the synthesis of two ideologies, the embodiment of yin and yang. Balance as a concept appears often in the tarot — here we’re being advised to keep our heads and seek emotional balance. Temperance could be viewed as “everything in moderation”, that hackneyed old phrase that sounds boring at first but might be the key to surviving this crazy ride. There’s clearly a reason Temperance sits between Death and the Devil, Temperance is calming, soothing, a balm for what ails us. Ask yourself: where am I out of balance here? How could some moderation help this situation?