Strength Tarot Card Meaning
Keywords: courage · gentle strength · patience · compassion
What you see on the card
A woman in white, a garland of flowers in her hair and an infinity sign above her head, gently places her hands on the mouth of an orange-red lion. Yellow background, blue mountains in the distance.
Strength upright
Gentle strength and courage: patience and compassion tame the inner lion better than force ever could
Strength reversed
Self-doubt, impulsive flare-ups of temper, and forgetting the quiet inner strength you already have
In love and relationships
In love, Strength is patience and tenderness that hold steady through difficult moods. It favours calm conversations over confrontations, and shows a bond that grows stronger by being gentle with each other's wild sides. Reversed, it speaks of self-doubt or flare-ups of temper.
In career and money
At work, it shows quiet confidence: handling difficult people or pressure with composure rather than force. You have more inner strength than the situation suggests. With money, steady self-discipline beats dramatic gestures.
As advice
As advice: meet the situation with courage and kindness at the same time. Do not fight the lion — calm it. Patience here is not weakness; it is the strongest move you have.
In a reading, a card is never read alone: its position, its orientation and the cards beside it change what it says.
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