Symbolism of Temperance


Number: 14 (1+4 =5); 5 symbolizes balance, & rules leo & Mercury
Astrology: ruled by Sagittarius & Jupiter
Kabbalah: letter “Samech”; meaning “Tent/prop”; symbolic meaning “support/doctrine”; pathway “Tiphareth” (beauty) to “Yesod” (foundation)
Cups: emotions, nourishment, emotional fulfillment, temperament
Triangle: trinities: “father, son & Holy Ghost, moon- waxing, waning & full, mind, body & spirit; mother, father & child; past, present & future; mother, maiden & crone; thought, feeling & emotion and creation, preservation and destruction; positioned pointing upwards it symbolizes the following: masculinity, solar, Shakta, active, assertive, up and father. When flipped upside down it represents the feminine, Shakti, passivity, down, mother, lunar and cave. A triangle tattoo can also symbolize creativity, harmony, ascension, proportion, manifestation, integration, culmination and change. “[1] “soul”; (often seen with all-seeing eye) to the greeks: called the delta glyph and is seen as a doorway in which balancing thought and emotion would provide an entrance to higher wisdom; mystic teachings tell of the power of three—the birthing of wisdom
Square: foundations, “body”
Yellow Iris: Optimism, connection to the divine
Figure stance: one foot in water in art symbolizes a connection to the spirit world
Sun in the background: actualization
Path: the winding path to enlightenment/actualization
White robe: purity
Water flowing up into the cups: defies logic, miracles happen, magic
Halo around head with open 3rd eye: enlightenment, balance of thought and emotion
Sources:
https://www.tarotteachings.com/temperance-tarot-card-meanings.html
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