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Strength

Major arcana · VIII
The Strength card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A figure in white calmly closes the jaws of a lion with both hands, the lemniscate above her head, flowers at her waist.

Upright

  • Patience
  • Gentle power
  • Composure

The lion is not beaten, it is soothed — traditionally the card of strength that does not need to overpower. It invites you to consider what in your life responds better to patience than to pressure.

Reversed

  • Forcing it
  • Self-doubt
  • Depleted

Read reversed, either the grip has tightened into force, or the reserve that patience runs on has simply run low and needs refilling before anything else is asked of it.

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About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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