Strength tarot card meaning
A woman closes a lion's jaws with her bare hands, calm, unhurried, an infinity sign over her head. The strength is in the gentleness.
- Upright
- courage, gentleness, patience, inner power
- Reversed
- self-doubt, harshness, fear running the show
- Yes or no
- Yes
- Linked to
- Leo · Leo
Strength upright
Strength is the quiet kind of power. Upright, it asks you to meet a hard feeling, a hard person or a hard season with patience instead of force. The lion is your own wild part: anger, desire, fear. Strength doesn't beat it. She befriends it. This card often appears when you're braver than you think.
Compassion is the tool here, love, including compassion for yourself on the days you're tired.
Strength reversed
Reversed, doubt creeps in. You may feel smaller than the problem, or you may be meeting it with harshness, toward others or yourself. Fear might be making decisions on your behalf. Breathe, soften, and remember you've carried heavy things before.
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Strength in love
In love, Strength is patient, loyal affection: the kind that stays through difficult conversations and doesn't need to win them. It can describe a passionate bond held together by tenderness.
Strength at work
At work it rewards steady courage: handling a difficult person gracefully, keeping going on a long project, leading by calm example.
Strength as feelings
As feelings, Strength says they feel deeply for you and are patient about it, with a passion they keep gently in check.
Is Strength yes or no?
Yes
With patience, not force. A single card leans; it doesn't decide. Read it beside the cards around it and the facts of your own life.
A question to sit with
What would change if you met this with gentleness instead of pressure?
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Strength found you for a reason.
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Questions about Strength
What does Strength mean in tarot?
Upright, Strength stands for courage, gentleness, patience, inner power. It asks you to meet a hard feeling, a hard person or a hard season with patience instead of force.
What does Strength reversed mean?
Reversed, Strength points to self-doubt, harshness, fear running the show. You may feel smaller than the problem, or you may be meeting it with harshness, toward others or yourself.
Is Strength a yes or no card?
It leans yes. With patience, not force. Read it beside the cards around it and the facts of your situation.
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