No colour - is a NO. 🤣 ( I guess I should never say never - one never knows ). I've got to have the joy of bright colour to please my eye. Some types of hard core Horror - H. R. Giger Tarot for instance - where there is no human connection in the characters, just ewwwwwww. - cccccc - creeepyyyyyy. I like urban or contemporary fantasy - but I've never yet found a Vampire deck whose imagery I'm satisfied with. (Magic The Gathering MTG - has some wonderful urban fantasy art and I like the depictions of the vampires there... maybe I'll make up my own oracle deck from a collection of those cards. Except that the size of these cards is a lot smaller, and as I get older I will find squinting at the artwork more annoying). Anthropomorphised animal decks. No. Just like animal owners not bothering to find out how their pets really tick and assuming they have human attributes - this just annoys me to no end. (And @gregory - I'm so sorry for your dog experience. People who say "my dog will never do that" are idiots IMO). Totally abstract art - and if the imagery is JAM PACKED. Too busy for me. Mostly decks without people in them.

Ah, I missed tempering in my list. I especially like flexibility is stronger than rigidity. And I used to cite the middle way all the time, but now I've forgotten more than I ever learned about Buddhism . . . Thanks for the insights!

One of the concepts that I like to return to when thinking about Temperance is the act of tempering in metallurgy. So, using exposure to extremes, in this case high heat and quenching, to change the fundamental nature of something. What was once rigid and unbending is made less hard and brittle through opposing forces, therefore actually making it stronger given it's increased ability to flex and yield. I feel that Temperance can be about consciously choosing the middle way, or it can be about bringing different elements together to create something new. However I also feel that it can be about a new understanding and / or a new way of being through push and pull, a transformation brought about by surviving polarised elements.