There is a mystical aspect to temperance. This has to do with alchemy - the alchemy of human possibility.
We see this type of alchemy during social upheavals over equality, in times/places of war, and anywhere injustice is suffocating people. The alchemy happens when temperance enters the fray to ‘temper’ or balance the various elements in play. With temperance, the heat of transmutation can act upon the different elements to forge something new, something more resilient, something stronger. In the world of alchemy, that ‘heat’ comes from a device called an athanor. What comes out of the athanor will be entirely different from what went into the athanor.
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