Printed from tarotall.com – keep this as a study reference for Strength.
Major Arcana · VIII
Strength
courage
inner strength
patience
inner strength
patience
Upright
Quiet courage and gentle patience taming even the fiercest challenge.
Reversed
Self-doubt, insecurity, or brute force used where patience was needed.
Yes or no?
Upright
Yes
It puts the power in your hands, which means the answer follows whatever you do next.
Yes
It puts the power in your hands, which means the answer follows whatever you do next.
Reversed
Yes, not yet
Strength is a yes card: it puts the power in your hands, which means the answer follows whatever you do next. It came up reversed, and in a real shuffle that is the exception rather than the norm, so read it as the deck going out of its way to say: the yes is real, and something is sitting on top of it.
Yes, not yet
Strength is a yes card: it puts the power in your hands, which means the answer follows whatever you do next. It came up reversed, and in a real shuffle that is the exception rather than the norm, so read it as the deck going out of its way to say: the yes is real, and something is sitting on top of it.
Card Imagery
A woman calmly closes a lion’s jaws, an infinity symbol above her head — soft power outlasting brute force.
Notes