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The Temperance card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A winged figure pours liquid between two cups, one foot on land and one in a pool, an iris growing beside a path to distant mountains.

Upright

  • Blending
  • Moderation
  • Patience

One foot on land, one in the water, and the pouring never spills — traditionally the card of proportion found by adjusting rather than by choosing sides.

Reversed

  • Excess
  • Clashing
  • Impatience

Read reversed, the mixture is off: too much of one thing, two things that will not combine, or a process being hurried that only works slowly.

About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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