This card is about demonstrating self restraint and avoiding excess. It’s about moderation and sustaining a balanced and centered energy. When this card appears it indicates that one is or can achieve stability and experience harmony. Temperance also indicates good health ~ mentally, emotionally and physically. It can indicate a time for healing or recovery, renewed energy and vitality. With Temperance new sensations of internal balance and control emerges. This card is about responding to unconscious information and reconciling the material world with the spiritual to form a cohesive personality. It’s about the higher self at work guiding and teaching us. All experiences are lovingly and compassionately guided by our higher self here.This card is also about the fusing of seemingly irreconcilable opposites. It is a reminder that only the belief that the two cannot be merged is what stands in the way of blending. This card is also called “alchemy” which means to separate and join together.
