Literature Clues: XIIII Temperance

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 19 Apr 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Melvis	19 Apr 2003
Sorry it took so long! Had to sleep...then I had to go to work...you know how it goes! :D Anyway, here's my offering from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran: Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. -------------------- Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. -------------------- Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. Peace, Melvis :TSTRE

Moongold	19 Apr 2003
Temperance?

HOLMES	19 Apr 2003
hmm THE SIX OF SWORDS ?

Melvis	19 Apr 2003
It is indeed Temperance! The Prophet has quite a few passages that apply very nicely to the Majors, but most of them are quite obvious. This was the toughest one I could find, and you got it on the first try! Moongold, you're too good at this! :D Back to you! Peace, Melvis :TSTRE

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