Temperance Tarot Year Card
A year for healing, patience and finding the right mix.
What a Temperance year means
Temperance shows an angel pouring water between two cups, with one foot on land and one in water. As a year card it describes a gentler year of blending and balancing: combining different parts of your life, recovering from a hard stretch, and finding the right proportions of work and rest, giving and receiving.
A Temperance year usually rewards patience. Results come from small, consistent adjustments rather than dramatic moves, and many people find it a year of healing, whether physical, emotional or in their relationships.
Fourteen reduces to 5, The Hierophant, the background theme: the balance you find this year often comes through learning, a teacher or a practice you commit to.
Work, love and inner life
Work and money: Collaboration, combining skills and steady progress. Good for bringing two roles or interests together.
Love and relationships: Compromise, reconciliation and gentle repair. Relationships improve with patience.
Inner life: Healing, moderation, health routines and balancing your energy.
Gifts of a Temperance year
- Recovery and renewed wellbeing.
- Calm, sustainable progress.
- Relationships repaired through compromise.
- Finding a combination that really works for you.
What to watch for
- Splitting the difference when a clear choice is needed.
- Caution that turns into doing nothing.
- Keeping the peace at the cost of your own needs.
- Impatience with slow results.
Working with your Temperance year
- Adjust one daily routine, such as sleep, food or movement, and keep it steady.
- Notice where you swing between extremes and look for the middle path.
- Combine two interests into one project.
Questions to reflect on
- What needs healing in my life this year?
- Where am I out of balance?
- Which two parts of my life could work better together?
Who has Temperance as their year card in 2026 and 2027?
With Greer's method your year card depends only on what your birth month and day add up to. In 2026, Temperance is the year card for anyone whose month + day comes to 13, 22, 31 or 40: 39 birthdays (about 11% of the year). In 2027 the totals are 12, 21, 30 or 39, which gives 40 birthdays (about 11% of the year).
January 12, 2026: 1 + 12 + 2026 = 2039 → 2 + 0 + 3 + 9 = 14 → Temperance
All 39 birthdays with Temperance in 2026
January 12, January 21, January 30, February 11, February 20, February 29, March 10, March 19, March 28, April 9, April 18, April 27, May 8, May 17, May 26, June 7, June 16, June 25, July 6, July 15, July 24, August 5, August 14, August 23, September 4, September 13, September 22, October 3, October 12, October 21, October 30, November 2, November 11, November 20, November 29, December 1, December 10, December 19, December 28.
All 40 birthdays with Temperance in 2027
January 11, January 20, January 29, February 10, February 19, February 28, March 9, March 18, March 27, April 8, April 17, April 26, May 7, May 16, May 25, June 6, June 15, June 24, July 5, July 14, July 23, August 4, August 13, August 22, August 31, September 3, September 12, September 21, September 30, October 2, October 11, October 20, October 29, November 1, November 10, November 19, November 28, December 9, December 18, December 27.
Before and after a Temperance year
Everyone with Temperance in 2026 had Death as their 2025 year card, and in 2027, 27 move on to The Devil and 12 move on to The Lovers. Most years the card moves forward one step, but when your total crosses into a new decade (2049 to 2050, for example) the digits reset and the card drops back. That is why some birthdays jump between Temperance and The Lovers.
These dates follow the calendar year, as in Greer's method. If you count your year from birthday to birthday instead, your Temperance year runs from your birthday in that year to your next one. When does a year card start?