Strength (tarot card)

Strength is a Major Arcana tarot card, and is numbered either XI or VIII, depending on the deck.

[1] The Strength card was originally named Fortitude, and accompanies two of the other cardinal virtues in the Major Arcana: Temperance and Justice.

This switch was originally suggested in the mysterious Cipher Manuscripts which formed the basis for the Golden Dawn's teachings regarding tarot and other subjects.

According to A. E. Waite's 1910 book Pictorial Key to the Tarot, the Strength card carries several divinatory associations: 8.

[3]In astrology, the Strength card is associated with the masculine, fixed-fire sign of Leo and its ruling planetary body, the Sun.

Strength (VIII) from the Rider–Waite tarot deck
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Folio 32 of the Cipher Manuscripts , suggesting the numbering switch for the Strength and Justice cards