But in recent years the use of such methods has once again become popular. Divination with a pendulum or with tarot cards seem to be the most common. These days there are many websites offering to tell people their future with astrology or tarot readings but I'm very skeptical of these as they are usually very expensive and you have no way of knowing how honest or how experienced these people are. I decided I would prefer to learn to do my own readings. I had already tried dowsing with a pendulum with some success and my father had found underground water pipes with the dowsing rods I bought as a toy for my son. But I had never used the tarot myself before because I associated it with the ouija board and creepy stories of light bulbs exploding and furniture moving. So, why did I change my mind? To be honest, it was the need for some answers that made me turn to the packet of miniature tarot cards I had bought as a novelty a few years ago. Without going into personal details, I was confused after a meeting in the autumn of 2011. I didn't really think anyone else could tell me why I was feeling this way, so I decided to use my own resources. With the internet for help with interpretation and the layout of the cards, I began to use the tarot to help me understand what might be happening in my life and how I could best deal with it. The results have been very enlightening and, as time has gone on, I have developed more and more trust in the cards which have given me better results each time.

This card has great depth of meaning for me personally and provides some clarification and answers for my own personal dilemma, but it is more than that. To me it seems to be a card for our time. In a world in which the opposing views, political, religious and ideological, seem to be becoming more and more polarised, a need for cooperation and the finding of common ground is essential for the continuation of our species, or we may witness those forces tearing our world apart. Joining with others and working together to find solutions to the problems that we all face regardless of our different views of the world is imperative. The uniqueness of our worldviews and the way we approach those problems is not an obstacle to our cooperation but a positive advantage. Preserving the original character of each person so that it is incorporated into the whole without losing anything, we can celebrate those qualities and what they offer to our human civilisation. Instead of standing defiant in our separateness, we could reach out to the human spirit within each other and realise we are all in this together and that the new currency of our planet is love not money. In this way, Temperance teaches us that the blending of those unique sparks of creativity that lie within each of us could create a world that is greater and more evolved than the one in which we are living today.