Strength
The Strength card depicts a lady with a lion, the lion is subdued, but not by mere physical force, yet rather by love and compassion. So too are we able to restrain the largest of strife through understanding, patience and tolerance. Courage, Balance, Patience and Understanding. As courage and strength are often confused with physicality and brutality, the strength card represents inner strength, compassion and understanding of circumstances, so by which to overcome hardship and strife.
Numerology: As VIII represents infinity, eternity, and success, so this Major Arcana signifies a means of permanent overcoming, and triumph.
Thereby tame the beast within yourself; you need not have a roaring angry lion making your decisions in order to find your true self. You have no needs! The lion is merely representing your ego, that which wants and needs and will roar and tear you apart, it is not you. Tame the lion with compassion and inner understanding, thereby you will find that you will always have the inner strength to complete the challenges along your journey.
Thereby tame the beast within yourself; you need not have a roaring angry lion making your decisions in order to find your true self. You have no needs! The lion is merely representing your ego, that which wants and needs and will roar and tear you apart, it is not you. Tame the lion with compassion and inner understanding, thereby you will find that you will always have the inner strength to complete the challenges along your journey.
Meditation:
If one were to reflect what we see in nature, and identify with nature, we would see that even the smallest mustard seed finds its path through toiling through the soil, not by force and brutal strength, but by understanding it is a seed and nature alone guides it on its path to becoming a tree. Matthew 13:31, 32 explains 'The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.'
If one were to reflect what we see in nature, and identify with nature, we would see that even the smallest mustard seed finds its path through toiling through the soil, not by force and brutal strength, but by understanding it is a seed and nature alone guides it on its path to becoming a tree. Matthew 13:31, 32 explains 'The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.'
David in the lions den found in Daniel 6:10
How do you define your strength?
Where do your strengths lie?
Where are you applying your strengths?
Which lion are you feeding?
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