Temperance
interpretation
Reconciliation, compromise, relaxation of tensions. Integration of opposites. Ability to do the seemingly impossible. A slow process of distillation and improvement. Patience, perseverance. Self-improvement.
message
find the golden mean
if reversed
Going back and forth without making real progress. Losing patience with a lengthy process. Emotional preoccupation with oneself, pushing away others who might come to help.
hermetic correspondences
occult title: The Daughter of the Reconcilers; The BringerForth of Life
qabalah: from Netzach to Tiphareth
hebrew letter: נ
meditation:
Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him
will never thirst; the water that I shall give him will
become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
(John 4:13-14)