Balance and patience
Temperance
Major Arcana No. 14
Upright Meaning
Temperance represents the right blend: patience, balance, and the ability to combine opposing elements into harmony.
Reversed Meaning
Reversed, it signals excess or a lack of moderation in some area of your life.
In Love
In a relationship, it invites finding the middle ground instead of extremes.
At Work
Professionally, it favors patience with results that need time to mature.
Is Temperance positive or negative?
Positive: one of the most harmonious cards in the deck, even reversed it only asks for moderation.
Common Combinations in a Spread
Next to The Moon, it suggests balance between intuition and patience with something still unclear. Next to The Devil, it marks the tension between moderation and excess.
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