Strength upright
The maiden doesn't fight the lion - she closes its mouth with her hands. The infinity sign above her head says this isn't a one-time act of bravery; it's a way of being.
Strength is what's left when you've stopped trying to dominate the situation.
Patience, soft persistence, the courage that doesn't have to announce itself.
Strength reversed
Reversed, the lion is winning - you're being run by your own fierce energy rather than holding it.
Or the opposite: you're suppressing the lion entirely, and it's eating you from the inside.
Keywords
- courage
- patience
- compassion
- inner strength
- self-mastery
Where this reading comes from
Meaning paraphrased from A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), which is in the public domain - reworded rather than reproduced.
Common questions
- What does Strength mean?
- Gentle force, the lion calmed without a sword. The maiden doesn't fight the lion - she closes its mouth with her hands. The infinity sign above her head says this isn't a one-time act of bravery; it's a way of being.
- What does Strength mean reversed?
- Reversed, the lion is winning - you're being run by your own fierce energy rather than holding it.
- Is Strength a good card to draw?
- Strength is one of the twenty-two Major Arcana, which mark structural turns rather than day-to-day detail. Tarot convention treats no card as simply good or bad - the reading depends on the question and the position it falls in.
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