The Sacred Circle Tarot is a deck of seventy-eight cards based on the pagan heritage of Britain and Ireland, their sacred rites, and the symbolic images of their tradition. The work is a mixture of drawings, photographs and computer generated images.
[XIV] Art/Temperance
Careful consideration, patience, moderation, adaptation, tempering, self-control. To temper, to combine, to exercise self-restraint. Patience, bringing together two opposites carefully blending them. Good marriage. Working in harmony with others, good management. Something is brewing. Great talent and creative involvement. Striving for Transcendence through works. Alchemy. The union of opposites refined by the fire of the Will.
Invertido:
Disorder, conflict, unfortunate combinations, quarrels. Possibility of shipwreck.
The objective of this work, according to its authors, was to formulate a deck that was not only based on ancient traditions, but had immediate relevance for the modern practitioner, using key symbols to uncover the deepest levels of pagan teaching.
The Circle to which the title refers, not only alludes to the Wheel of the Year, but to the sacred circles of the landscape and the cycles of life: spiritual, material and emotional.