First Impressions
This card seems to be about creativity , moderation, balance , combining different elements. The combinations appear to be opposite parts of one entity.
Number, Element, Question asked
Question asked; this card asks if we are practicing moderation? Can we blend other elements into our life to make it whole?
Element: fire this card focus on the creativity of the element and the out put of some of those combinations is energy, also she is mixing fire and water , to make steam ( air)
Number 5
This was the hard part for this card. 5’s are about change and some times the trauma that causes them. This is really good for this card because it shows the “other side” of this card. once we mix fire and water , we have steam
steam is neither bad or good but it is changed.
Talking with the card:
I just asked for help because this card was getting really hard.
what I got back was this is a card of doing and making and that it is also about patience and waiting, sometimes the best things we can do it nothing.
Bringing it all together
Temperance can be about moderation at first this card showed pouring water into wine to allow a person to drink with out feeling the effect. With Fire being that will power, creative energy and 5’s being about change and many of the symbols showing combining opposite forces like man and woman ( 2 triangles) and the snake of transformation about to swallow the egg off creation this card seems to be more about combining apparent opposites to form something new. The 5’s and fire also give us a hind to what ca happens if this card goes “ bad” unwilling to combine other forced or see other ideas .look at the 5’s in the minor arcane and we can see what happens if we get single minded. This is one of those cards that are so good it is hard to find something bad about it even the 5 of wands( fire) is the least painful of the 5’s
Good bad and indifferent.
Good: learning moderation , willing to combine things to form some thing new overcoming a problem . being creativity,
Bad: alcoholism, going to extremes, having blinders on
Indifferent: using the entire self i.e.: not being just physical but also being emotional and/or spiritual
PS If at all possible I would love comments on this as I do not feel comfortable with this card. I feel like I missed some thing i re-read all sorts of books and checked out as much info as I could but still do not fee secure in my knowledge.