Templanza

respuesta rapida

El significado principal de Templanza es La alquimia y armonización de energías.. Del derecho, suele apuntar a Equilibrio, moderación, compenetración, paciencia. Simboliza armonizar elementos; invertida, puede sugerir Desequilibrio, extremos, exceso, impaciencia. Puede indicar turbulencia emociona.

Imágenes de tarjetas

Un ángel está parado con un pie en el agua y el otro en la orilla. Sostiene dos tazas y milagrosamente vierte agua entre ellas en ángulo sin derramar una gota. Un emblema de cuadrado y triángulo marca su pecho y un camino conduce hacia el sol al fondo.

Significado del derecho

Equilibrio, moderación, compenetración, paciencia. Simboliza armonizar elementos opuestos, encontrar el camino medio y crear algo nuevo a través de una fusión casi alquímica.

Significado invertido

Desequilibrio, extremos, exceso, impaciencia. Puede indicar turbulencia emocional o pérdida del punto de equilibrio en una relación o situación.

Amor, carrera, dinero y crecimiento

amor

Enamorado, Templanza señala a La alquimia y armonización de energías.. Vuelve a leerlo teniendo en cuenta cómo se comporta realmente la relación y lo que ambos están eligiendo.

carrera

En cuestiones profesionales, Templanza apunta a La alquimia y armonización de energías.. Empiece por determinar qué recursos controla y cuál será su próximo paso.

dinero

En cuestiones de dinero, Templanza apunta a La alquimia y armonización de energías.. No trates una lectura simbólica como una conclusión de inversión; guíate por los hechos, el presupuesto y tu propia tolerancia al riesgo.

Crecimiento personal

Para el crecimiento personal, Templanza apunta a La alquimia y armonización de energías.. Escribe la pregunta que plantea y luego conviértela en una acción que realmente puedas comprobar.

Si o No

Derecho

si

Invertido

No

Esta es nuestra propia lectura rápida, basada en la dirección en la que se inclina el significado de la carta. Las tradiciones no están de acuerdo con respecto a las cartas individuales, y un "Quizás" debe sopesarse con la posición en la distribución y su situación real en lugar de tomarse como una respuesta de una sola palabra.

Texto original de Waite (1911)

Simbolismo interior (original)

A winged angel, with the sign of the sun upon his forehead and on his breast the square and triangle of the septenary. I speak of him in the masculine sense, but the figure is neither male nor female. It is held to be pouring the essences of life from chalice to chalice. It has one foot upon the earth and one upon waters, thus illustrating the nature of the essences. A direct path goes up to certain heights on the verge of the horizon, and above there is a great light, through which a crown is seen vaguely. Hereof is some part of the Secret of Eternal Life, as it is possible to man in his incarnation. All the conventional emblems are renounced herein.

So also are the conventional meanings, which refer to changes in the seasons, perpetual movement of life, and even the combination of ideas. It is, moreover, untrue to say that the figure symbolizes the genius of the sun, though it is the analogy of solar light, realized in the third part of our human triplicity. It is called Temperance, fantastically, because, when the rule of it obtains in our consciousness, it tempers, combines and harmonizes the psychic and material natures. Under that rule we know in our rational part something of whence we came and whither we are going.

Significado original del derecho

Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation.

Significado original invertido

Things connected with churches, religions, sects, the priesthood, sometimes even the priest who will marry the Querent; also disunion, unfortunate combinations, competing interests.

Citado de A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), ilustrado por Pamela Colman Smith. El texto es de dominio público.

Orígenes de mitos y símbolos

Pouring liquid between two vessels simply is the standard way of drawing the virtue Temperance. No detour through Greek myth is required.

Documented imagery

Attested by surviving objects or texts

The act of pouring is Temperance itself

Temperance (Temperantia) is one of the four cardinal virtues, and the fixed medieval personification is a woman pouring liquid between two vessels, the reference being the ancient practice of cutting wine with water — not drinking it neat is the everyday model of temperance. The central gesture of this card is nothing else: it is a literal illustration of the word. Taken together with Strength (Fortitude) and Justice, this deck holds three of the cardinal virtues; only Prudence is missing.

Fuente The classical four cardinal virtues; the water-mixing scheme in medieval personifications of Temperantia

Esoteric correspondence

A sourced traditional claim, but constructed inside an occult system

Waite's figure is neither male nor female

Waite writes: the sign of the sun on the forehead, on the breast "the square and triangle of the septenary," one foot on land and one in the water. He makes a point of declaring that he calls the figure he, "but the figure is neither male nor female," rejects the claim that it symbolises the genius of the sun, and says the name Temperance is applied "fantastically" — because what it is actually doing is tempering the two natures, spirit and matter.

Fuente Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911, Temperance (compare the original in the source panel on this page)

Sagittarius and the road going up

The Golden Dawn assigns Temperance to Sagittarius (Hebrew letter Samekh). The path on the card running straight to distant hills with a light above them agrees with the Sagittarian sense of shooting toward something far off. This is a result of system design, not the origin of the imagery.

Fuente Golden Dawn Book T zodiacal attributions

Modern reading

Popular only since the twentieth century; unrelated to where the card came from

Iris and Ganymede: a modern identification

Because the card shows a winged figure pouring water, people often attach it to Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow, or to Ganymede, the cupbearer of the gods who belongs to Aquarius. Both are real figures in Greek myth, but neither has any line of descent to the water-mixing scheme of the virtue Temperance — in the history of the imagery, the act of pouring was the marker of a virtue first, and only later got identified by later readers as some deity.

Fuente Modern popular reading; Iris and Ganymede are figures of Greek myth

Escrito por BESTAROT, no citado de fuentes históricas. Cada afirmación se etiqueta según su grado de evidencia; Las capas interpretativas modernas son útiles para la lectura, pero no representan el origen histórico de la carta.

Estudie el tema: Orígenes de mitos y símbolos (capítulo 6 de la Academia)