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Jan. 2, 2004

My card was Temperance:

The Artist's Inner Vision Tarot

Temperance

Artwork by Jill Jones

In our lives too much of anything can be turned into a negative
influence on us. Too much work creates strain on the personal life.
Too much personal time and work may suffer. Too much exercise can
create physical ailments, and the same can be said of not enough
exercise as well! The Temperance card tells us that we need to be
moderate in all things. We must measure appropriate time to various
activities; we must take stock of priorities in our lives and make
sure we are handling them.

In our relationships we must compromise and cooperate with loved ones
and others in our lives. Common sense and application of logical
principles, recognizing the whole is only as good as its parts,
creates balance and productivity.

The card portrays Temperance as a woman who might be painting or
reading with a flaming busy night sky behind her. Above her lies a
palette of colors. The woman keeps a balance in life, blending the
different moods of the solar system in her palette. At her feet is a
flowing stream, symbolizing new life and the eternal movement of
life.

Temperance urges us to blend opposites, merge opposing viewpoints and
create harmony within our lives, both our personal life and our
business life, stressing compromise and cooperation as the necessary
ingredients to a congenial existence.

The negative aspect would be to waste energy in discordant
disagreements, to stagnate in an oppressive atmosphere or to
overindulge in some activity.

Groundhog Day is a movie in which the main character is forced to
relive one day over and over again until he gets it right and does
the right things. This is a perfect example of how he must blend all
the right behaviors and say the right thing with each individual to
reach out for the best reaction from each person he deals with in
each situation.

The movie Like Water for Chocolate shows a blending of unconscious
and conscious worlds, the blending of opposites.