
Daily Draw: Jane Austen Tarot ~ Temperance
This card relates to Emma Woodhouse and Jane Fairfax and their prickly relationship. Poking fun at something she isn't intelligent enough to appreciate is Emma's answer to many things. As she matured in life she realized some of the traits she disdained are useful, even admirable.
I'm reminded by this card that rounding our social and moral corners are part of life and growing up. Many things I thought I'd never do, I've done, because life required me to grow up and stand up and be counted. I've learned to analyze and observe when someone's behavior rubs me the wrong way. Do I react because it is behavior I haven't had the maturity to fold into myself yet? Temperance asks us to judge less and keep our mind open to any potential for personal growth.
"Fools! not to know how far a humble lot
Exceeds abundance by injustice got;
How health and temperance bless the rustic swain,
While luxury destroys her pamper'd train." ~ Hesiod, 800 BC
I've tried to read all of Jane Austen's books and never made it past the first couple of chapters in any of them, so why do I have the
Jane Austen Tarot kit? Because it has a well written comprehensive book by Diane Wilkes that accompanies it. Published by Lo Scarabeo in 2006, art by Lola Airaghi.