Major Arcana · XIV

The Temperance Month

Fire

This month your card is Temperance. Slow down. The thing that isn't moving yet may need more time rather than more force. The blend is working even when it doesn't look like it. The thing to watch: Temperance month can tip into using patience as avoidance, the gentle pour as a way of not having to make the call. Notice the difference between what's still integrating and what's been integrated and is waiting for you to act.

The card behind the month

Your month card is Temperance, one of the twenty-two Majors. Here’s what it means at full length.

Temperance is the part of you that blends what doesn't obviously go together. It is patience, integration, the slow alchemy of making one thing out of many. It heals by mixing, not by perfecting.

Read a Temperance month in the almanacWhen a Temperance month comes around for you, the living almanac reads it the day the month turns, then walks the daily cards inside it, personal and collective, alongside your Bearing.
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