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Originally posted by Ceridwen:
I read this here:"Understand that Temperance does mean patience--but only patience when it comes to achieving a goal. And that goal is usually to get a "third" chemical out of the mix. It's not a matter of blending, per se. If you put oil and vinegar together, you can blend them into a salad dressing...but let that salad dressing sit for a while and the two ingredients will separate. That's not what Temperance wants.
Temperance wants *TRANSFORMATION*. Temperane wants to make the oil and vinegar bond into a completely different, third element that will never come apart. Temperance wants, for example, to take oxygen and hydrogen and transform them into water. Hence, it is the card of the patient and persistent chemist who finds the right measurements so that the two halves become a third, different creation.
And so the card may well be telling you to be patient and keep working on getting the right elements in the right proportion when you're with your ex...because eventually the right amount of the right stuff will transform your relationship from acrimonious to harmonious."
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=80936
For me personally it has come up as a card that showed that there was "healing" needed and thus represented a stronger internal focus. It was not indicative of withdrawel though, like the Hermit often is, but yes, healing, I can`t say it any better.
Healing, acceptance and finding back to balance.
Actually it is more a real integration of even opposing feelings than just accepting something because you don`t have a choice. I`d say it is more acceptance with the heart.
Yes I believe it is a good card for a reconciliartion, or actually it is the stage before the reconciliation. Though it could also mean moving on to something worthier.
I think it depends what the result of the evaluation of the relationship before were, if you have accepted and integrated and processed the events leading to separation.
As for relationships:
http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=156626