Major Arcana 8 · Tet ט · Leo
Strength
Courage and gentle mastery (Justice is 8 in Marseille; Adjustment in Thoth). Soft strength beats force.
Good and bad traits
Good traits
- Courageous
- Patient
- Compassionate
- Gentle
- Steady
Bad traits
- Proud
- Self-doubting
- Bottled-up
- Stubborn
What Strength means
- Love
- You love with patience and calm storms with kindness.
- Work
- Care, healing, animals, coaching, and work that needs inner strength.
- Money
- Money comes through patience and endurance; slow, steady work outlasts quick gains.
- Health
- The heart and the spine; your stamina is great, but bottled feelings tire the body.
- Spirit
- Gentleness is power: you tame the wild in yourself with love, not force.
- Advice
- Soft strength beats force.
Reversed
Self-doubt, or pride and temper breaking through a calm surface.
Shadow work: You may carry everything alone. Asking for help is courage too.
Yes or no
Yes
As a yes or no card, Strength answers yes.
Ask yourself
Where can softness do more than force?
Affirmation: “My strength is calm, kind and steady.”
Correspondences
- Number
- 8
- Hebrew letter
- Tet ט
- Astrology
- Leo: the card of Leo
- Constellation
- Courage and hope. Strength and the Star: patient inner strength and a faith that heals.
- In the Destiny Matrix
- Fairness, Truth, Balance, Order, Clean karma; in the minus: Judging others, Coldness, Rigidity, Grievance
Strength as a birth card
Add your birth month, day and year (for 7 March 1990: 3 + 7 + 1990 = 2000), then add the digits until the total is 22 or less; 22 is the Fool. The card you reach first is your soul card, the last your personality card. Work out yours.
Famous people with Strength as their soul card
Every card
- 0. The FoolBeginnings, faith, the leap into the unknown
- 1. The MagicianWill, skill, turning ideas into reality
- 2. The High PriestessIntuition, secrets, the inner voice
- 3. The EmpressFertility, abundance, nature, mothering
- 4. The EmperorAuthority, structure, fatherhood
- 5. The HierophantTradition, teaching, institutions
- 6. The LoversUnion, choice, values
- 7. The ChariotWillpower, victory, direction
- 9. The HermitSolitude, wisdom, the inner light
- 10. Wheel of FortuneCycles, fate, turning points
- 11. JusticeTruth, cause and effect (Strength is 11 in Marseille; Lust…
- 12. The Hanged ManSurrender, sacrifice, a new perspective
- 13. DeathTransformation and endings
- 14. TemperanceBalance and alchemy (Art in Thoth)
- 15. The DevilBondage, desire, materialism
- 16. The TowerSudden upheaval and revelation
- 17. The StarHope, healing, renewal
- 18. The MoonIllusion, dreams, the unconscious
- 19. The SunJoy, success, vitality
- 20. JudgementAwakening and calling (The Aeon in Thoth)
- 21. The WorldCompletion and wholeness (The Universe in Thoth)
Questions and answers
What does Strength mean?
Courage and gentle mastery (Justice is 8 in Marseille; Adjustment in Thoth). Soft strength beats force.
What does Strength mean reversed?
Self-doubt, or pride and temper breaking through a calm surface.
Is Strength a yes or no card?
Yes.
What does Strength mean in love?
You love with patience and calm storms with kindness.
What does Strength mean for money and work?
Money comes through patience and endurance; slow, steady work outlasts quick gains. Care, healing, animals, coaching, and work that needs inner strength.
Which zodiac sign is Strength?
Leo, in the Golden Dawn's order; its astrological attribution is Leo.