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Meaning of Strength

Upright: Courage, Resolution, Drawing on deep resources, The taming of our wildness by compassion and intellect, Patience through caring, Passion and love, Pride and determination, Self-Control

Reversed: Weakness, indifference, Failure of nerve, Despotism, abuse of power, discord, disgrace.

Message of Strength:

I empower you to get the job done. When you call on me, I give you courage to use your own energies with intention. This is internal Strength--the ability to remain resolute in the face of obstacles.
Soul Message: “Mountain Pride was Noble Beauty, teach me to honor my responsibility, to walk my talk and with love and part. To follow my journey, a path with heart.” By Isha Lerner from “The Power of Flowers”

Strength Card Affirmation

""I affirm the strength of my heart. My power is one with Divine spirit.""

Journal Prompts for Strength Card
Do I focus on the love of power or The Power of Love?
What tames my savage beast?
How can I integrate my passive and aggressive sides?
Other Names for Strength Card
The Empowerer, The Shaman, Moving from the Core, Lust, Composure, Conquest, Grace, Endurance, Fearlessness
Spread Position Meanings for Strength Card

Strength as an Action:

As an action to be taken, The Strength card is not about using brute force. It is about perseverance, endurance, getting things done with a soft hand. The strength is internal power displayed outwardly with elegance and eloquence.

Strength as Advice :

You have reserves of power. You need not act rashly. Use your charm, skill, grace, equilibrium to achieve your goal.

Strength as Desires in a Person:

Someone needs you to be steady, calm and in control of yourself and your emotions and actions.

Strength as Desires in a Situation :

Someone needs the situation to resolve without drama, blaming, or recriminations.

Strength as Feelings about a Situation :

The situation requires a light touch. You need to move forward with purpose and power without intimidating others.

Strength as Feelings for Someone :

In the Thoth deck, Strength is called Lust. You should examine whether your desires are altruistic/compassionate or intense and selfish.

Strength as an Outcome:

You have the emotional and mental strength necessary to bring about a good outcome. Exercise your endurance and persevere till the end.

Strength as a Person:

As a person, Strength represents someone who knows how to apply intellectual and material resources to where they accomplish the most.

Strength as Timing:

Dog Days of summer, July 24th to August 24th.

Strength as Yes/No:

Yes

Correspondences for Strength

Archetype: Goddess Athena

Astrology: Jupiter/Ascendant--positive attitude to others, Venus in Leo: the creative development of the libido leads to passion, desire, and charisma

Rune: Gebo “present” psychical and physical union

Stones: Peridot, Cat’s Eye, Jasper, ruby

Tree of Life (Kabbalah): the connecrion between Chesed and Geburah

Numerology: 8, new beginnings

Ogham tree and Letter: Ivy, Gort/G

Plant/Fragrance/Essential Oil: Chamomile, Cayenne, Basil, Comfrey, Thyme, Mountain Pride

Day/Sabbath/Ritual: Dog Days of summer July 24th to August 24th.

Mythology: Samson and Delilah, Ishtar leading the Bull against Uruk Kundalini rising,
Quotes Related to Strength
"May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy." Colossians 1:11

"By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more Beauty. By donating abodes of Purity and Truth we acquire great Treasures." Buddha
Strength as Poetry
Strength by Indira Babbellapati

To stay put amidst chaos
That's peace

That which makes one stand
And walk straight in pain
That's strength!

Where there's peace
There lies strength!

Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman BY SONIA SANCHEZ

1
Picture a woman
riding thunder on
the legs of slavery...

2
Picture her kissing
our spines saying no to
the eyes of slavery...

3
Picture her rotating
the earth into a shape
of lives becoming...

4
Picture her leaning
into the eyes of our
birth clouds...

5
Picture this woman
saying no to the constant
yes of slavery...

6
Picture a woman
jumping rivers her
legs inhaling moons...

7
Picture her ripe
with seasons of
legs... running...

8
Picture her tasting
the secret corners
of woods...

9
Picture her saying:
You have within you the strength,
the patience, and the passion
to reach for the stars,
to change the world...

10
Imagine her words:
Every great dream begins
with a dreamer...

11
Imagine her saying:
I freed a thousand slaves,
could have freed
a thousand more if they
only knew they were slaves...

12
Imagine her humming:
How many days we got
fore we taste freedom...

13
Imagine a woman
asking: How many workers
for this freedom quilt...

14
Picture her saying:
A live runaway could do
great harm by going back
but a dead runaway
could tell no secrets...

15
Picture the daylight
bringing her to woods
full of birth moons...

16
Picture John Brown
shaking her hands three times saying:
General Tubman. General Tubman. General Tubman.

17
Picture her words:
There’s two things I got a
right to: death or liberty...

18
Picture her saying no
to a play called Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
I am the real thing...

19 Picture a Black woman:
could not read or write
trailing freedom refrains...

20
Picture her face
turning southward walking
down a Southern road...

21
Picture this woman
freedom bound... tasting a
people’s preserved breath...


22
Picture this woman
of royalty... wearing a crown
of morning air...


23
Picture her walking,
running, reviving
a country’s breath...

24
Picture black voices
leaving behind
lost tongues...

Source: Poetry (April 2018)

Still I Rise BY MAYA ANGELOU

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.