Temperance: tarot card meaning

Temperance is card XIV of the Major Arcana, associated with the element of Fire. Drawn upright it speaks of balance, moderation, patience; reversed, of imbalance, excess, impatience.

Upright meaning

balance, moderation, patience, healing

The quiet alchemy of blending opposites until they harmonise -- slow, steady, measured steps are the ones that hold.

Reversed meaning

imbalance, excess, impatience, internal disharmony

Something is running to an extreme -- pull back toward the middle and restore balance between what you give and what you keep.

Vedic and astrological correspondence

In a three-card reading

In the past position Temperance describes the current that carried you to where you are; in the present position, what is most alive in the situation now; in the future position, the direction things tend toward if nothing changes. A reading weighs it against the other two cards rather than on its own.