Nuggets from Occult Invasion

There is no scientific basis for Four Temperaments. Yet many Christian psychologists and lay “healers” make them the basis of “personality classification” and the key to behavioral insights. As the Bobgans point out in their excellent book Four Temperaments, Astrology & Personality Testing:

“The word temperament itself comes from the Latin word temperamentum, which meant ‘proper mixing.’ The idea was that if the bodily fluids were tempered…by balancing the humors with each other, then healing would occur…. Even the positions of various planets were thought to alter the fluids for better or worse…. The four temperaments had virtually been discarded after the Middle Ages…until a few lone souls…marketed them in twentieth-century language…. [They] have been enjoying a revival…among astrologers and evangelical Christians….”