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Two things combined in the right proportion. Patience, gradual adjustment and the avoidance of extremes.
Major arcana 14 · Fire
Temperance
Reversed
Excess or imbalance. Something has been overdone, or two elements that will not mix are being forced together.
ArcanaMajor
Number14
ElementFire
PlanetJupiter
Yes or noMaybe
Keywordsbalance, moderation, blending
Where it sits in the sequence
The major arcana run 0 to 21 as a progression — the Fool's journey from unguarded beginning to completed cycle. Card 14 falls in the middle stretch, where the outward journey turns inward and gets tested.
Data, not interpretation
Hard facts about the Temperance
Golden Dawn sign
Sagittarius
Position in the deck
14 of 21
Odds of drawing it
1 in 78 · 1.28%
Card of the day in 2026
10 times · 2.74%
Reversed on those days
40%
The astrological attribution is not a modern invention. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn fixed it in their Book T in 1888, assigning every major arcana to a planet, element or sign, and every numbered minor to a ten-degree decan of the zodiac. Waite and Colman Smith built their 1909 deck on that framework, which is why the correspondences still hold today.
The card-of-the-day figures are exact, not estimated. Our daily draw is derived from the date rather than randomised per visitor, so the whole year can be computed in advance — something no site with a random draw can tell you.
Days the Temperance is the card of the day in 2026
10 Jan · 26 Feb · 7 Apr · 31 Jul · 20 Sep · 22 Sep · 3 Oct · 4 Nov
The image
What is on the card
A winged figure pours liquid between two cups, one foot on land and one in water, an iris growing nearby and a crown of light on the horizon.
Every detail in the Waite-Smith deck was placed deliberately by Pamela Colman Smith in 1909, and reading the picture usually gets you further than reading a keyword list. Notice what the figure is doing, where they are looking, and what is behind them.
Temperance in love, work and health
In love
Patience and gradual blending of two lives. Compromise that works.
In career and money
Moderation and steady adjustment. Neither rushing nor stalling.
In health
Balance, moderation and healing that takes the time it takes.
Reading it in a spread
A card means different things by position. In a past-present-future layout, Temperance in the past describes something already worked through; in the future it describes a direction rather than a fixed outcome.
Read it against its neighbours rather than alone. Two cards from the same suit intensify each other; a major arcana beside a minor tells you the situation is larger than the everyday.