Weekly Tarot: Strange Makes Strong

How our differences make us stronger

This week’s card: Temperance

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Temperance is not balance. It’s integration.
It doesn’t ask you to smooth out your edges: it asks you to use them.

You don’t have to explain your pronouns, your rage, your joy, or your silence.
Temperance says: put it all on the table. You don’t pick a lane: it’s totally ok to be all over road.

This card celebrates the both/and.
Both survivor and soft-hearted. Both queer and questioning. Both afraid and powerful.
Temperance is the alchemist, combining what "shouldn’t" fit and creating something entirely new.

Just like you.

And isn’t that what community really is?
A bunch of brilliant, mismatched, glorious pieces—learning how to hold each other.

Action Steps

Here are five ways to embrace your edges this week:

1. Claim Your Complexity
   Write your bio, your about-me, your dating app profile with no edits. Let it be messy, full, contradictory. Let it be yours.

2. Practice “Yes, and...”
   Instead of correcting someone’s experience, try adding to it. It makes more room. And more room means more safety.

3. Learn Someone Else’s Code
   Use someone’s correct name, pronouns, honorifics. Even if it feels awkward at first. It’s not about you—it’s about respect in action.

4. Find the Weirdos
   Seek out the misfits. Make a new friend. Join a niche group. Start a strange conversation. Let difference be the spark, not the wall.

5. Hold Space, Not Control
   In group settings, resist the urge to organize everyone into order. Let things unfold. Temperance is about emergence, not enforcement.

You’re not too much. You’re the missing piece.
Tag or text someone who always makes space for your realness.
Be strong. Be safe. Be heard. We’ve got this! 💪💜

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