Based on the Rider-Waite Tarot card Temperance.

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Temperance reflects a need for the blending of opposites.This card signifies cooperation and compromise with negotiation and sharing of feelings being the key to harmony. It is thought that the androgenous winged figure on the Rider-Waite Temperance is the Archangel Michael. The flow of water between the two cups indicates the constant movement necessary to preserve harmony. Liquid that does not flow stagnates. Harmony is a dynamic condition not a stagnant one.

Check out the cattails and yellow irises on the lamp beads. I love the background on the Temperance card, but there was no room on this necklace unless I sacrificed detail on the angle's face, so I bought these lamp beads (made by Lee Lynn Thompson) with the right background to use in the spiral rope strap.