Temperance & Moderation

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“The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.”
– Philip Sidney

“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”
– Thomas Paine

“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
– Oscar Wilde


Tomb – Womb – Moon: the power of that round vowel at the heart of these three pervades the Path of Temperance. It holds the infinite zero of the Void, which is also the Nothing from which the Divine Spark created All in our universe. So, after death, after the dissolution of the body to bone-seed and watery chaos, new life begins again in the tomb-womb of Earth.

Harmony, balance and unity must first be restored. (Read more …)

– The Path of Temperance – Samekh, Tarot card 14, Tree Path 15, Joining Sephiroth 6 (Tiphereth) and 9 (Yesod), ‘The Owl’, ‘Fishing Bridge’, ‘Apprehensions’, ‘The Hands’, by Ann Skea.

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