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Strength Tarot Card Meaning
The Strength tarot card means courage, patience and gentle control. Quiet courage and patience.
Upright
- Courage
- patience
- gentle control
Reversed
- Self-doubt
- short temper
- drained energy
Yes or no
Yes
Strength is card VIII of the 22 major arcana.
What the card shows
A woman in a white robe, crowned and belted with flowers, bends over a lion and gently holds its jaws. An infinity sign floats above her head. The lion's tail is tucked between its legs.
This is the card as drawn by Pamela Colman Smith for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which is in the public domain.
Upright meaning
Strength is read as courage of the quiet kind. The lion is calmed, not beaten. The card points to patience, compassion and keeping your temper, fear or appetite in hand without crushing it.
Strength reversed
Reversed, it is read as doubting yourself, snapping under pressure, or being worn down and needing to rebuild your reserves.
Yes or no?
In a yes or no question, Strength is usually read as a yes. Readers differ on some cards, so treat this as one common reading. You can ask a yes or no question and draw a card for it.
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