Major Arcana · No. 8
Strength
courage · patience · gentle power
☀️ Upright Meaning
True courage tames with gentleness rather than force. Your patience is about to shine.
🌙 Reversed Meaning
Confidence wavers and emotions pull hard. Trust the strength that is already within you.
💞 In Love
Patience and gentleness protect the relationship. Even emotional conflicts can be softened by a tender approach now.
💼 In Career
Your true worth shows in handling difficult tasks and difficult people. Quiet persistence wins in the end.
💰 In Money
The card of taming desire (the lion) — govern impulse spending and your finances stabilize visibly.
🏛️ A Memory of the 15th Century
The woman opening the lion's jaws bare-handed comes from the medieval virtue icon Fortitudo (Courage). One of the four cardinal virtues beloved by Renaissance humanists, it engraved the Stoic ideal: rule the beast by virtue, not force.