Strength
This card depicts the goddess Thrud forming a gentle, trusting bond with a white bear, symbolizing compassionate mastery of power through patience and tenderness. It emphasizes perseverance, harnessing inner strength, courage, and embracing unique talents when facing adversity. The surrounding faeries and the Rune Wunjō suggest gratitude, pleasure, and the rewards of maintaining a positive, grateful outlook. Reversed, the card warns of suppressed truths, lack of compassion, and feeling overwhelmed, urging renewed self-trust and honest appraisal of obstacles.
Keywords
Card Title
VIII · STRENGTH
Description
The goddess Thrud bows their head on the brow of a white bear. She wears a dainty wreath of flowers that makes their red hair dazzle. She dresses in light armor and pants, and leather bracers appear on her forearms. Thrud gently cradles the bear's face in their hands. The bear bows his head in kind and has its eyes closed. There is a feeling of trust between the two. Faeries float and dance around the pair in the woodlands — the Rune for Wunjō glows slightly on the bear's neck.
Upright
perseverance, harness inner strength, embrace your unique talents, courage, facing adversity.
Reversed
trust yourself, insurmountable problems, suppressed truth, have no compassion, failure.
Rune
Wunjō. Count your blessings, pleasure, rewards.
Visual Description
A red-haired woman in leather and metal armor gently cups the muzzle of a large white bear, their foreheads nearly touching in a sun-dappled forest. Tiny glowing fairies or motes hover around them and small flowers dot the bear's fur, while a rune-like mark is visible on the bear's shoulder. The Roman numeral VIII is printed at the top of the card and the word STRENGTH appears at the bottom, with grass and wildflowers underfoot and pale trees receding into mist behind them.
Runic tarot
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