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Two things that look opposed can often be mixed, slowly, into something better than either. Temperance is patience as a technique: small adjustments, the long middle path, the recipe that only works at the right temperature.
Reversed
Reversed, you tend to get extremes — all in or all out, feast or nothing, the correction that overshoots the problem it was solving. This is the card of the fix that becomes its own issue.
If this is your card this month
Where would a smaller, steadier version of this work better?
A card is a prompt rather than a forecast. It doesn't know what will happen, and the useful part is what you do with the question it hands you. We make that case at more length in not a prediction, a mirror.