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This seasons theme was for us to explore times and encounters with cards that for some reason or another stuck out for us, or that challenged our usual way of thinking, or was different than expected
There has always been one card in the Tarot Deck until about a year ago that I always got a little stuck on. It wasn’t that I didn’t know the interpretation of the card it was more that it felt lofty and hard for me to put into real life perspective.
The card was the Major Arcana card of Temperance.
Temperance appears right after the transformation of the Death card and seems like the calm in the eye of the storm before The Devil card. It felt to me a little out of place.
Transformation on one side and material entrapment on the other this pretty angel with similarities to the Aquarius zodiac sign and The Star tarot card would stump me.
I knew it called for patience and to take things a step at a time. To avoid extremes and bring together the mind for awareness.
Where this card really clicked for me was in the key meaning of patience.
I am a Gemini. We are not a zodiac sign well known for our patience and moderation. Most Gemini’s I know talk a lot and want everything yesterday. Which can be very frustrating. Very frustrating.
What the Temperance card taught me was that all things have their time and space and that sometimes no matter how much we want to force it it won’t happen through sheer will power alone.
Being pregnant was a huge test of patience and being fully in the moment and embracing it. Not wanting to rush every little thing. Waiting those long last few weeks where you just want to meet the little one so much and you are so over being tired, bloated, unable to sleep and sore. I was so out of control in that situation it got me to a place of surrender. Not all the time mind you. Sometimes it would still irritate me that I wasn’t in control. But then I would be gently reminded that it was all about the journey and about my unborn son not me and that I was also going through a huge shift in all of my energy fields. Another aspect of Temperance is alchemy and I really connected to the concepts of alchemy while being pregnant. I was a walking, talking chemistry set and still am as I am breastfeeding.
So I finally was able to connect with this card that I found lofty and aloof through my experience of patience, pregnancy and alchemy.
And what a beautiful lesson to learn with the Angel of Balance.
Imbolc Blessings Everyone! Thank you to Karen for organising this Tarot Blog Hop.