The Temperance card demonstrates not the experience itself, but how the experience is brought about, i.e., through an exchange and balance of opposites which can only be symbolically described… The process is one of bringing the Spirit into the body so that it tempers the consciousness, and is itself tempered by the consciousness, thus forming something new, something which is “more than the sum of its parts.”
Samech, meaning to verify or test, is the name of this path. Wrath is associated with this path and represents the anger of frustration from the unfulfilled desire of the Ego to reach and control higher levels. Harmony, balance and unity must first be restored. On this Path, where the Moon of Yesod is joined with the Sun of Tiphereth on the central Pillar of Balance, and both receive energies directly from the Divine Source through Kether at the Crown of the Tree, all contraries are reconciled. So, body and spirit, human and divine, male and female, intuition and will, and all such (seeming) dualities are united and become part of the whole....read more>>>...
