14-Temperance – Reversed Golden Deck

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Your Chosen Card – Temperance Reversed Golden Deck

When reversed, the Art card implies that you are having difficulty finding a golden mean. Confronted by contradictory impulses, you feel at a loss about how to strike an artful balance. You are tempted to go to extremes rather than seek a middle ground of reconciliation. Ponder the words of the philosopher: ‘Moderation in all things, including moderation.’ As Abraham Lincoln cautioned, ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’

Keywords Reversed: Immoderation, conflict, incompatibility, excess, imbalance, impatience, going to extremes, lack of self-control, indecision, clashing interests, inconsiderate demands, inability to reconcile opposing forces, irreconcilable differences, all or nothing thinking; ‘it’s my way or the highway.’

Key XIV: Art (Art)
Myths/Archetypes: The Centaur. The Alchemist. The Hermaphrodite. The Transsexual. The Creator. The Artist. The Healer. The Inventor. Hegel’s dialectic.
Dates of Sagittarius: 22 November–21 December (tropical); 16 December–14 January (sidereal).
Astrology: Sagittarius, the centaur archer (a Fire sign ruled by Jupiter)
Numerology: 5 (Hierophant) = 1 + 4 (Art)

Mathers: Combination, conformation, uniting; (R) ill-advised combinations, disunion, clashing interests.

When Temperance is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If Temperance is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Temperance is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your reversed card reading for Temperance using cards from the Golden Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.

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Complete Book of Tarot
Book Details
Complete Book of Tarot: Early in the fifteenth century, artisans in northern Italy added a fifth trump suit to the four standard suits of the Mamluk-inspired cards, creating a deck to play the game of trionfi, or triumphs, similar to the modern game of bridge. The word tarot may derive from the Italian name for the deck, tarrochi. Renaissance artists drew their inspiration for the allegorical images on the trump cards from the Bible as well as from ancient Greek and Roman manuscripts, which were all the rage in Renaissance Italy. Each trump in the card sequence outranks the one that comes before it.

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: Severity/Strength/Justice—Necessary purging. Geburah is related to the destructive forces that eliminate what is no longer useful. Geburah is associated with Mars, the planet of conflict and strife. The tarot cards related to the number five are the High Priest (V), Temperance (XIV, 1 + 4 = 5), and all the pip cards numbered five.

Tarot Triumphs: Who comes afterward? It is Temperance. There is some relief, as this winged angelic figure follows, a five-petaled flower bound to her forehead. She casts a steady glance to the side, as if concentrating on her task as she pours water, or perhaps wine, from one jug into another. Temperance, moderation: everyone knows the meaning of that. Or do they? There is something miraculous here, for the water or wine never ceases to flow, and it is a two-way flow between the jugs. How can that be? Temperance is about keeping away from excess, but here the resources seem to be infinite.

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Tarot Triumphs: Who comes afterward? It is Temperance. There is some relief, as this winged angelic figure follows, a five-petaled flower bound to her forehead. She casts a steady glance to the side, as if concentrating on her task as she pours water, or perhaps wine, from one jug into another. Temperance, moderation: everyone knows the meaning of that. Or do they? There is something miraculous here, for the water or wine never ceases to flow, and it is a two-way flow between the jugs. How can that be? Temperance is about keeping away from excess, but here the resources seem to be infinite.