{"id":326,"date":"2026-07-05T04:50:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/tarot\/2026\/07\/05\/thoughts-on-temperance\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T04:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:51:36","slug":"thoughts-on-temperance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/spiritualtarot\/thoughts-on-temperance\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Temperance"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"326\" class=\"elementor elementor-326\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e72d873 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4e72d873\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c47a224 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"6c47a224\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4aeca4d6 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4aeca4d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/spiritualtarot\/conscious-spiritual-path\/temperance\/\">Temperance<\/a> depicts the energies of the psyche in balance. It is what is referred to as the &#8220;right work of centers&#8221; in the 4th Way terminology. I<\/p>\n<p>n Temperance the working of the self-undoing of false personality is at a minimum or is absent, and if present it is purely residual, it does not have the power to overwhelm the psyche, as it once did; it is no longer &#8220;first force&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here true personality has matured, is in tune with essence&#8217;s wisdom, and is fully active.<\/p>\n<p>Temperance comes as the result of the process described on the previous card in the sequence: <a href=\"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/spiritualtarot\/conscious-spiritual-path\/death\/\">Death<\/a> (card 13). Death depicts the process of elimination of the useless, false, and harmful from the psyche or, as some refer to as &#8220;the purification of the mind\/heart&#8221;. Such purification leads to Temperance; to the normal and natural working of the body-mind apparatus.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-170f4297 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"170f4297\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1620488d elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1620488d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"151\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/spiritualtarot\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/07\/14-temperance-1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-291\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temperance depicts the energies of the psyche in balance. It is what is referred to as the &#8220;right work of centers&#8221; in the 4th Way terminology. I n Temperance the working of the self-undoing of false personality is at a minimum or is absent, and if present it is purely residual, it does not have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts-on-tarot-and-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/spiritualtarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/spiritualtarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/spiritualtarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/spiritualtarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/spiritualtarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/spiritualtarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/spiritualtarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/spiritualtarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/spiritualtarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/spiritualtarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felipeoliveira.com\/spiritualtarot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}