The Temperance card is also known as the Daughter of the Reconcilers and the Bringer-Forth of Life. It is ruled by Sagittarius and represents balance of the opposites. moderation, refinement and creativity.
The figure represented in the sign of Sagittarius gives us one clue to its meaning - Sagittarius being the Centaur, it is the merging of human and animal, man and horse, which also represents logic and instinct. The merging of the opposites always results in a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. She is also standing with one foot on land and one in sea - fixed earth and mutable ocean, again a reference to balancing opposites.
The Angel depicted in the card can be seen blending the contents of two vessels, and these are  fire and water which are normally incompatible,
This card also brings to mind the ancient Chinese symbol of the Yin and Yang, masculine and feminine and the importance of both concepts to an integrated wholeness. As the Bringer-Forth of Life, the Temperance card needs to merge the masculine and feminine to bring in something new, a new life and a new hope.
And so when the Temperance card turns up for you in a reading it is to bring in something new, somthing that has not existed before. The opposites that it brings together are seemingly incompatible, and yet when they are brought together in the vessels of the Angel then a new form and way of being arises. Something that was not in your awareness, or in the field of possibility for you before is now coming and it takes life to a whole new level.
This is also a card of healing which comes after a reconciliation of your emotions - since many maladies, both physical and spiritual, come from an imbalance of the emotions then the bringing back into balance one's thoughts and feelings can heal many ailments. Again, it is reconciling the warring factions within that allows a new form to arise - a new understanding and a new way of living.
This is a time to look within for your balance and forgo looking outside of yourself for answers - at this time for you they don't exist out there. It is time to resolve the internal conflict and come to peace.
"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony." - Thomas Merton
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