Temperance
Temperance
Temperance invites you to find your balance. By blending different parts of your life with patience and care, you create harmony. Move steadily and let things come together at their own pace.
Love Patience and compromise nurture your relationships. Meet in the middle with kindness.
Work Steady, balanced effort brings good results. Combine skills and ideas thoughtfully.
Money Moderation serves you well. Balanced spending and saving builds lasting security.
Wellbeing Balance in rest, activity and nourishment helps you feel calm and whole.
Growth You are learning that harmony is an art. Each small adjustment brings you closer to peace.
Reversed, Temperance suggests that something is out of balance, perhaps through overwork, rushing or excess. Step back and look at where you can ease off. Small adjustments can restore harmony.
Love Tension may be rising from imbalance. Give each other space and patience.
Work Pushing too hard may lead to strain. Pace yourself and delegate where you can.
Money Overspending or rigid restriction can both cause stress. Aim for a middle path.
Wellbeing Extremes in any area may leave you tired. Gentle moderation restores your energy.
Growth Notice where you are rushing. Slowing down can bring you back to centre.
Symbols in the glass
- pouring between cups blending and finding the right mixture
- one foot on land, one in water balance between practical and emotional life
- irises messages and the rainbow bridge of the goddess Iris
- distant path to a crown of light patient progress toward purpose
- triangle within a square spirit brought into daily life
- wings a higher perspective
A winged angel in white stands with one foot on land and one in a pool, pouring water between two cups. A triangle within a square marks the robe, irises grow by the water, and a path leads toward a distant crown of light over mountains.
Deeper lore
- Element
- Fire
- Astrology
- Sagittarius
- Hebrew letter
- Samekh (ס)
- Tree of Life path
- 25: Tiphareth to Yesod
- Golden Dawn title
- The Daughter of the Reconcilers, the Bringer-Forth of Life
- Number
- Fourteen reduces to five, change, while holding twice seven: movement tempered by patient integration.
- Names
- Temperance · Tempérance · 节制
Waite, 1911
Waite (1911) lists: economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation. Reversed: matters connected with churches and religions, disunion, unfortunate combinations, competing interests.
What part of my life needs a little more balance right now?
Ask Iris about this cardFor reflection and entertainment. Meanings follow the Smith-Waite tradition.