Temperance (tarot card)

[1] The former of these interpretations is supported by the rainbow which is often added above her head and the fact that the flowers pictured in the Rider–Waite Tarot version of the card are Irises.

At the end of the path in the lower left part of the card, there is a crown to show the attainment of a goal, or mastery thereof.

[5] In the Rider–Waite image by Pamela Coleman-Smith (shown on this page) the Hebrew Tetragrammaton is on the angel's chest above the square and triangle.

Waite's 1910 book The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, the Temperance card is associated with: 14.TEMPERANCE.--Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation.

Reversed: Things connected with churches, religions, sects, the priesthood, sometimes even the priest who will marry Querent; also disunion, unfortunate combinations, competing interests.

Temperance (XIV) from the Rider–Waite tarot deck
A woman mixing water into wine was a standard allegory of Temperance in European iconography. This statue is part of Peter of Verona 's tomb.