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Major Arcana · Trump XIV
Temperance
A card that falls upside down is read reversed.
Key words
↑ UprightModerationPatient blendingThe middle way
↓ ReversedImbalanceCompeting interestsIll-matched parts
What it means
↑ Upright
An angel pours from one cup into the other, one foot on dry land and one in the stream. The card is about moderation and give-and-take: blending what you have in the right proportions, making room for both sides, and giving the mixture the time it needs. Avoid extremes, adjust a little at a time, and let patience do what pressure cannot.
↓ Reversed
The mixture has gone wrong: too much of one thing and not enough of another, or two aims pulling against each other with nobody willing to give. Haste and excess are the likeliest causes. Step back, find which interests are competing, and work out what needs measuring more carefully before anything more is added.
What's on the card
The angel, neither male nor female in Waite's account, wears the sign of the sun on the forehead and a triangle within a square on the breast, commonly read as spirit held within matter. What passes between the cups Waite calls the essences of life, and the name, he says, means tempering: blending the inner and the material natures. Irises, the rainbow's flower, grow by the water, and a path climbs to a light on the far heights.
Waite's meaning, 1910
Upright
Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation.
Reversed
Things connected with churches, religions, sects, the priesthood, sometimes even the priest who will marry the Querent; also disunion, unfortunate combinations, competing interests.
A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Part III.