An angel pours liquid between two cups, one foot on land and one in water, grounded and fluid at once, and the stream between the cups flows at an angle no physical liquid would.TemperanceA Baphomet figure looms over a chained man and woman who have grown small horns and tails.The Devil

Card combination

Temperance and The Devil

Moderation against excess, and they sit next to each other in the deck for a reason: fourteen and fifteen. The tradition reads the pair as the distance between a habit under control and one that has taken over, and it is honest that the line is not always visible from the inside.

Together

Moderation against excess, and they sit next to each other in the deck for a reason: fourteen and fifteen. The tradition reads the pair as the distance between a habit under control and one that has taken over, and it is honest that the line is not always visible from the inside.

In love

Associated with intensity that has stopped being balanced by anything.

In career

Overwork read as commitment. The pairing is one of the deck's more direct comments on burnout.

The advice

Temperance is the answer to The Devil in this pairing, and it is not abstinence. It is proportion, which is harder.

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