Strength Meaning

Major Arcana · Fire · Leo · Yes or no: Yes

Upright

courage, patience, inner strength, compassion, taming

Strength tames the wild beast not through force but through love and patience. Your greatest power lies in the deep wells of resilience and compassion within you.

Reversed

self-doubt, weakness, insecurity, raw emotion

Reversed, Strength reveals self-doubt and uncontrolled impulses threatening to take over. Tend to your inner world with the same tenderness you would offer another.

Strength in love

In love, Strength is a major turning point: upright it brings courage and patience; reversed it warns of self-doubt and weakness. Pay attention, because Major Arcana cards in a love reading point to lessons bigger than the relationship itself.

As feelings

As feelings, Strength suggests courage and patience: what they feel is significant, not passing.

Career and money

In career and money, Strength signals a significant chapter: upright, courage and patience; reversed, self-doubt and weakness.

As advice

As advice, the Strength asks you to lean into courage and patience, and to guard against self-doubt.

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