Strength
Fortitude represents courage that coexists with fear and emphasizes the importance of patience in personal growth. The card encourages acknowledging your shortcomings and anxieties, then moving forward with cultivated strength symbolized by the lotus rising from mud and water. Reversed, it calls for greater gentleness and patience with yourself, reminding you that flaws and past mistakes are parts of you but should not prevent growth. It stresses that progress requires risk and that you are worth taking that risk to continue developing.
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Fortitude
Upright
Fortitude is the representative of courage, and there is no courage without fear. This card indicates that you have found a healthy measure of patience for yourself. This is a reminder to acknowledge your shortcomings and all the anxieties that accompany them, and then work your way forward. The lotus flower represents the way that strength is cultivated. Out of the mud and through the water, a beautiful flower rises.
Reverse
In this position, Fortitude reminds you to be more patient with yourself. Our shortcomings, our flaws, and all our past mistakes are parts of us, but those things should not hinder our growth. If we are not gentle and patient with ourselves, how can we cultivate our growth? Progress requires risk; remind yourself that you are worth that risk.
Visual Description
A calm woman with flowing, patterned dark hair and a red robe holds a white lotus in her cupped hands while a large golden-orange lion's head fills the background next to her. An infinity symbol floats above their heads and the scene is framed by concentric circular and star motifs. The palette is bold with purples, reds, oranges and pale yellows and the figures are rendered in a flat, decorative style.
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