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Temperance Tarot Card Meaning
Temperance is card XIV of the Major Arcana. Upright it speaks of balance, patience, moderation; reversed, of imbalance, excess. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's Jungian archetype and its astrological correspondence.
Major ArcanaFireSagittarius
Upright meaning
“Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: balance, patience, moderation, harmony, alchemy.
Reversed meaning
“Things connected with churches, religions, sects, the priesthood; also disunion, unfortunate combinations, competing interests”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: imbalance, excess, impatience, self-healing needed.
The archetype
The transcendent function — opposites synthesized into a living third; the soul's alchemy.
Astrology
Correspondence: Sagittarius.
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