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Temperance

Major Arcana

Represents self-control, balance, and the synthesis of opposites.

Balance moderation patience purpose harmony.

✨ Upright Meaning

Finding middle ground, harmony, patience, mixing and blending, synthesis.

Imbalance, excess, clashing, impatience, going to extremes.

Needing patience and moderation; a time for healing and finding peace.

Teamwork, collaboration; finding balance between work and personal life.

Harmony and compatibility in a relationship; balancing give and take.

Moderation in all things; finding a treatment that brings balance.

Integration of the self; divine timing; connecting to one's higher purpose.

Reversed: Imbalance, excess, clashing, impatience, going to extremes.

Reversed work meaning - challenges or blockages in: teamwork, collaboration; finding balance between work and personal life.

Reversed love meaning - difficulties in: harmony and compatibility in a relationship; balancing give and take.

Reversed health meaning - caution regarding: moderation in all things; finding a treatment that brings balance.

Reversed spirituality - disconnection from: integration of the self; divine timing; connecting to one's higher purpose.