Temperance Tarot Card Meaning and Art Alleged Tarot Deck
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About the Deck
Alleged Tarot Deck
A modern digital cartoon deck featuring traditional symbolism in a whimsical stick-figure style.
Provenance
Damian Cugley. Web, 2002. Used with permission of the artist.
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Meaning of Temperance from the Alleged Tarot Deck
Upright
balanced personality, tactfulness
Reversed
moodiness, uncertainty
According to Many Schools of Thought
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Temperance. The winged figure of a female--who, in opposition to all doctrine concerning the hierarchy of angels, is usually allocated to this order of ministering spirits--is pouring liquid from one pitcher to another. In his last work on the Tarot, Dr. Papus abandons the traditional form and depicts a woman wearing an Egyptian head-dress. The first thing which seems clear on the surface is that the entire symbol has no especial connexion with Temperance, and the fact that this designation has always obtained for the card offers a very obvious instance of a meaning behind meaning, which is the title in chief to consideration in respect of the Tarot as a whole.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Combination, Conformation, Uniting
Reversed
Ill-advised combinations, Disunion, Clashing interests, &c.
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Temperance. Economy.
