Strength
Strength represents courage, calm self-control, patience, compassion, persuasion, and gentle control. It emphasizes the management of impulses to control anger and raw power. The card suggests unwavering intention and perseverance will lead to the desired outcome. Different types of strength are highlighted, from raw physical power to the flexible resilience of bamboo.
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Image Description
A lion roars. The ground trembles, and clouds nervously rush across the sky. Bamboo sways quietly. The Chinese know the hidden strength of bamboo: seemingly fragile and thin, yet flexible and strong. It is a strength that doesn't need to announce its power to the world but it bends and yields to the wind, with shoots gradually pushing forward again, accompanied by the melodic rustle of leaves.
He roars again, and a flock of birds takes off from their perches, fleeing from the sound. A girl steps forward. She is as slender as the bamboo stems from which she emerged. Step by step, fearlessly, she approaches the beast. The King of the wild observes her, and she meets his gaze.
For the third time, his power echoes in the skies, proclaiming authority, dominance, and ownership to anyone who hears him. She smiles as she approaches within arm's length, and the enormous golden head yields to her touch.
Meaning
Courage, calm self-control and patience, compassion, persuasion, and gentle control, moderate strength. It is more about managing impulses to control anger and force rather than being manipulated by them. One must believe in success, although it might not come immediately or very easily – the lion is fierce, and the fire he guards is a scorching flame. Sometimes strength must be held back. Unwavering intention will lead to the desired result.
There are many types of strength. There is brute and savage strength, the animal strength of teeth and claws, fierce, calling the swan forward with the strength, driven by the instinct to protect its offspring. There is the steady strength of the oak, sprouting from a tiny acorn, but growing, growing, and becoming a mighty tree. And there is the strength of bamboo, swaying and absorbing energies from the surroundings, but not breaking.
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