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Temperance - 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot plate illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith
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Archival Source:1909 Rider-Waite-Smith
Artist:Pamela Colman Smith ('Pixie')
Rights Status:Public Domain
500-Year Historical Lineage
Major Arcana · XIV

Temperance

The Daughter of the Reconcilers · Alchemy & Dynamic Synthesis

🜂fire· Alchemy & Dynamic Synthesis
Element
fire
Astrology
Sagittarius
Hebrew Path
Samekh (ס)
Chromatic Tone
Solar Saffron & Celestial Violet

Upright Hermeneutic (Dynamic Principle)

The alchemical blending of disparate elements into a unified, tempered compound. Graceful calibration, patience, and harmonic modulation between polar states.

Inverted Hermeneutic (Friction & Shadow)

Discordance, volatile excess, impatience, clashing ingredients ruined by poor timing.

Iconographical Motifs

Winged AngelTwo Goblets with Continuous StreamFoot on Water / Foot on EarthWinding Path to Sun CrownIris Flowers
Lunologium Celestial Timing & Lunar Resonance

Harmonic tempering, frequency modulation, and polyphonic voice leading.