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Waite–Smith, Trump 14

Temperance

A winged figure pours between two cups while standing with one foot on land and one in water. A path runs toward a distant radiance.
Enlarge ↗Source scan, PDF p. 138 ↗

What you can see

A winged figure pours between two cups while standing with one foot on land and one in water. A path runs toward a distant radiance.

What Waite says

Waite says the figure is neither male nor female. He reads the pouring as the essences of life and the card as a harmonizing of psychic and material natures, beyond a simple instruction to be moderate.

Waite · Part II, §2 · printed pp. 124–127 ↗
Edition and image credits

Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.