Temperance…

I always feel a lot on this day each year, having been in NYC when the Towers fell. So I choose a card as a wish on this day. Today’s card is Temperance because Temperance stands between extremes. In the wake of pain, it offers healing. In the aftermath of destruction, it suggests balance. It asks us to mix what was once divided: grief and hope, fear and courage, past and future. It pours from one cup to another, endlessly, gently, as if to say: what we lost, and what we still hold, can coexist.

Temperance is not forgetting. It is not silence. It is the choice to respond, not with vengeance, but with vision. It is the hard, patient work of transforming anger into action, mourning into meaning, and division into unity.

Today, as we remember those we lost, and all that changed, let us invoke Temperance.

Let us be the angel on the card—feet on the earth, eyes to the horizon, hands making something new from all that was broken. Truthfully, this is the New York City I remember in days of this sorrow— a city where, in the face of heartbreak, strangers became family, and love rose from the rubble, lighting the way toward healing and renewal.

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."— Jean de La Bruyère

The Temperance Card - Tarot Art Rendering by So Lazo