Tarot card

Strength

Real strength is soft. Patience and kindness tame what force can't.

Upright

Keywords: courage, gentle strength, patience, compassion

Reversed

Self-doubt is loud right now, or you're trying to muscle through something that needs gentleness.

Keywords: self-doubt, insecurity, forcing it

Card VIII of the Major Arcana, one stop on the Fool’s Journey.

Journal prompt

Where can gentleness be your strength?

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Card art by Pamela Colman Smith, from the 1909 deck. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.