XIV
Temperance
Temperance tarot card meaning
Major Arcana · XIV
balance · moderation · blending
Upright meaning
Two things mixed in the right proportion. Temperance is patience with the recipe — healing that happens gradually and holds.
Reversed meaning
Excess in one direction, or impatience with a process that needs time.
Love
Compromise works. Extremes do not.
Career
Steady pace, sustainable effort, no heroics.
Advice
Take the middle path deliberately, not by default.
Where it sits in the deck
Temperance is card XIV of the Major Arcana, the twenty-two trumps that mark the turning points of a life. Read alongside its neighbours it forms part of the Fool's Journey, the story the deck tells when laid out in order.
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