Temperance tarot card ポスター

Temperance is about finding the middle ground, not too high, not too low, not too hot, nor too cold. Which got me thinking about Icarus and his escape from the labyrinth and subsequent folly of flying too close to the sun. Also in the original story he was advised not to fly too close to the water. So not too high or too low. This got me thinking about the story of Lucifer and how he flew too close to God/Sun and got cast down. So I combined these two very similar tales and made this scene about using temperance to escape the matrix and the monster of the minotaur. He's pouring out some water on the labyrinth, which looks like a computer board (the matrix) in order to short it out. Sagittarius is the zodiac sign attributed to this card and so the bow is referring to that