Death and Temperance

Adjacent, and the tradition reads the order as the honest account of what follows an ending: not a new beginning, but a long slow period of mixing what is left into something usable. Temperance pours from one cup to another, over and over. The pair is about the part nobody looks forward to.

Associated with the long stretch after a relationship ends, and with how gradual the recovery actually is.

Read for rebuilding after something finished. The pair is realistic about the timescale.

This is the slow part and it is the real part. Expecting the new beginning yet is what makes it feel like failure.