✳ Pearl Arcana Draw cards
Temperance

A 78-card digital tarot drawn in the tones of nacre and dancheong.

Temperance

Balance, moderation, patience, blending, healing.

Keywords · Upright

  • balance
  • moderation
  • patience
  • blending
  • healing

Keywords · Reversed

  • excess
  • imbalance
  • impatience
  • friction
  • overcorrection

Excess, imbalance, impatience, friction, overcorrection.

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How this deck reads it

The scene of liquid flowing from the raised golden vessel into the lower cup presupposes that the two vessels stand at different heights. Golden pieces of mother-of-pearl are arranged along the flow of the liquid, showing that mixing is not stillness but continuous movement. The posture with one foot at the water's edge and the other in the water presents in image a concrete method of balancing between two mediums.

The iris on the left and the low-hanging sun on the right divide the picture left and right yet rest on the same horizon. The treatment that blends the blue-green and vermilion of dancheong in overlapping washes rather than splitting them in half reveals that harmony is not a matter of cutting color in two but of tuning its density.

Artwork

A winged woman in flowing white robes pours water between two brass bowls at a shallow stream, iris flowers standing around her, a low sun near the horizon.

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