Strength

Strength

Key Words:

strength, gentleness, patience, compassion, healing, integration, courage, heart, control, discipline, fortitude, assurance, potency, virility, lust, instinct, ability, mastery

Meaning:

You are facing some difficult battles right now and will need to muster all the strength you can. The attacks could be coming from other people, pressures from work, or from your own dark shadow self. Either your fears will engulf you (and no one wants that) or you will find a strength of character, of mind, of heart, of soul that outshines anything you’ve previously imagined. The type of strength needed is not brute force, but rather a more potent kind of power that stems from compassion and understanding. Trying to strong-arm the situation might work in the short term, but for long-term benefits, you will have to explore the deep roots of the problem.

Advice:

Do your shadow work by looking for the parts of yourself that you have denied or deemed unworthy. Those parts of yourself that hide treasures, hoard them like a dragon, that you need in order to be the person you came here to be, and that the world desperately needs. Find the wounds, examine them with love (as represented by the red roses), heal them with compassion and understanding (as represented by the white gown), and claim your lost part. If you are dealing with other people, extend them the same love. Create space filled with magic, like that from the wand, where you or someone else can heal, because that is the greatest of all.