Tarot card meanings · Major Arcana 8
What does Strength mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), Strength upright means “Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity; also complete success and honours”, and reversed “Despotism, abuse of power, weakness, discord”.
Upright
Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity; also complete success and honours.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Despotism, abuse of power, weakness, discord.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
A woman, over whose head there broods the same symbol of life which we have seen in the card of the Hierophant, is closing the jaws of a lion.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 2
Where does Strength fall in a reading?
Strength belongs to the Major Arcana. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
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Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.