Major Arcana field note

Strength tarot

A traditional upright and reversed meaning for Strength, from the 22-card Major Arcana used in Mystica's Tarot picker.

Traditional tarot reference 4 min read
Major Arcana · card VIII

Strength

Meet the difficult part without making it your enemy.

Upright

Courage, patience, compassion, and power expressed through relationship with instinct.

Reversed

Self-doubt, force used where gentleness would work, or an instinct that has been shamed rather than understood.

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The upright thread

What this card opens

Courage, patience, compassion, and power expressed through relationship with instinct.

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The shadow thread

What the reversal complicates

Self-doubt, force used where gentleness would work, or an instinct that has been shamed rather than understood.

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