Temperance Tarot Card Meaning

Learning About The Major Arcana

Temperance Upright Draw Keywords

moderation

healing

blending

fusion

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Temperance Upright Draw Meaning

Are you presently learning how to bring balance into your life? Temperance is a tarot card that reveals your ability to travel along the middle ground and persevere with composure despite everything thrown at you. You have a long-term goal that you’re calmly moving towards, and you feel that life is coming together in such a way that feels right.

Perhaps, if you’re not at this level of understanding, yet, you need to practice more patience and adaptation. By doing this, you can begin to work not only in cooperation with opposing forces but also with others. See the beauty in melding together different energies, points of view, and philosophies.

Another meaning of this tarot card is to re-evaluate your current position in life. What are your priorities? Could they use some reorganization? Should you be in transition, you may be having difficulties severing the bonds holding you to your old self. Do not rush in, and you will come through renewed.

Temperance asks that we be wise enough to remove unnecessary drama in our lives and tackle challenges with as much calm resolve as possible.

Temperance In Love and Relationships

This tarot card meaning is simple: in order to ever find true love or create meaningful relationships (within friendships, romantic partnerships, family), you need to have a loving, peaceful relationship with yourself first. Without seeing yourself for who you’re and what you want, you will never be able to connect honestly with others. Look first at your own soul and come to terms with anything that may be poisoning it. Accept what you cannot change. Forgive yourself for past mistakes then let those traumas go. Do this, and you will see progress in love.

If there has been a hardship in your personal relationships this tarot card asks that you take a step back, breathe, and see where the imbalance is. Usually when you can get to the root cause of an issue true healing can begin.

Temperance In Career And Finances

Being that Temperance is about moderation and patience, apply that to work. You may be aiming too high and exhausting yourself. Though there is nothing wrong with setting your sights high, you need to achieve smaller “stepping stone” goals firsts. By doing small things that boost you higher, you will gain recognition for your accomplishments.

The likelihood of finding financial stability is near—if you haven’t achieved this status already. Conversely, if this balance seems unachievable, do not be afraid to ask for what you really deserve as salary, which is usually more than what you’re currently receiving.

Temperance of the Major Arcana has a message that applies to everyone: everything in moderation. When you find balance in your life, you can better navigate the challenges as they come. Do not be afraid to make aspirations and to have ambitions. Balance them with reflection and quiet time. Know yourself, then fulfill your purpose.

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Temperance Reverse Draw Keywords

excess

surplus

imbalance

extremes

Temperance Reverse Draw Meaning

Conflicts and having something in excess (whether this is an emotion or material possession), and imbalance cause stress and anxiety. Temperance reversed symbolizes that you’re trying to change, but you’re behaving with impatience and acting on impulse. Remember that acting with kindness, patience, and tolerance goes much farther than brash actions ever will.

You can leave the past behind you and transform. First, though, you must understand what it means to have a greater sense of purpose than connections to the material world. Get into the correct “flow,” and nothing will stop you—even naysayers and negative input from onlookers.

Temperance Reverse Draw Love and Relationships

Your actions have consequences and affect the people around you. It may be time to reflect on where you’re creating drama and why. There’s likely a deeper reason that you haven’t identified that needs your attention.

Temperance Reverse Draw Career and Finances

All work and no play will burn you out and suck the joy out of life. Take time for yourself even if work is your passion. You need to turn off in order to turn on your creativity. Prioritize your long term health to sustain your passion for what you do.

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Understanding the Rider Waite Imagery For Temperance

Temperance is often shown as a winged angel standing before a pool of water with one-foot dipping into the element which represents the subconscious realm. The other foot is on solid ground which is representative of the material world. This means that this heavenly being is not the kind of angel to just dive into situations or jump to conclusions. Temperance tries to see the world from every angle. Temperance is, thus, meant to reveal that someone has found balance by mixing together opposite aspects to mitigate the extremes.

The Muse of Tarot For Temperance

Tarot Muses are the divine creative source personified. They are invoked to provide support and space for your readings and lend their special gifts in realm of Tarot magic.

Holistix - The Muse of Health and Healing Tarot Readings

This is a card of being. When we allow space to just be and take the pressure off, it opens a space for healing. Holistix holds space for our transformations. Healing is an act of personal alchemy that transmutes old, limiting habits and beliefs into more beneficial, supportive ones. When we embody our spirituality rather than aspire to it, we can live more harmoniously with our bodies.

About The Major Arcana

The Major Arcana consists of the 22 cards that embody universal aspects of the human experience through symbology and archetypes. They are representations of our collective consciousness, those consistent, directing patterns of influence that are an inherent part of human nature. Each Major Arcana card is given a number, a place in a specific well-thought-out order, and a title which links the card to its meaning and deeper lesson.

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temperance1This 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 knowRWS_Tarot_14_Temperance 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.

globalight-angelic-00689Being 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.

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