08-Strength – Reversed Golden Deck

Your Chosen Card – Strength Reversed Golden Deck

When reversed, the Adjustment card can mean that your situation involves injustice, unfairness, bias, or partiality. Matters may feel out of balance or tilted against you. Legal proceedings are likely to cause difficulties. Dishonesty may characterize your dealings with others. If the goddess Ma’at were to weigh your soul against a feather right now, would she find you worthy of entering into paradise?

Keywords Reversed: Injustice, bias, inequality, unfair treatment, partiality, favoritism, bigotry, intolerance, hypocrisy, unreasonableness, undue influence, irresponsibility, immorality, unethical behavior, legal entanglements, an adverse ruling by a court, abuse of the legal system, refusal to accept responsibility for one’s actions.

Key XI: Adjustment. This card is numbered VIII in the traditional Marseille deck.
Myths/Archetypes: The Scales of Adjustment. Karma. The Egyptian goddess Ma’at who weighed souls against a feature to determine if they were worthy of paradise. Knight Solomon. The Code of Hammurabi. Moses receiving the Ten Commandments.
Dates of Libra: 23 September–22 October (tropical); 17 October–15 November (sidereal)
Astrology: Libra, the Scales (ruled by the planet Venus)
Numerology: 2 (High Priestess) = 1 + 1 (Adjustment or Strength) = 2 + 0 (Judgment)

Mathers: Power, might, force, strength, fortitude; (R) the abuse of power, overbearingness, want of fortitude.

When Strength is reversed you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise.  If Strength is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Strength is trying to tell you.  If you had a particular issue in  mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your reversed card reading for Strength using cards from the Golden Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.


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Complete Book of Tarot
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Complete Book of Tarot: In my late teens, I started reading Freud and Jung and became fascinated with dream symbols and psychological archetypes. My study of the celestial science resonated with what these two great psychologists had to say. In my own experience, Jung’s writings made sense regarding the contents of the collective unconscious. The same images that populated mythology, religion, and world literature cropped up in astrology and tarot. The symbolism shared by psychology, psychoanalysis, and astrology held my attention throughout my studies.

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Complete Book of Tarot: Wisdom—the Great Father. Chokmah is associated with the entire zodiac circle and, by some modern astrologers, with the planet Neptune. The tarot cards related to the number two are the High Priestess (II), Strength or Justice (XI, 1 + 1 = 2), Judgment (XX, 2 + 0 = 2), and all the pip cards numbered two. Chokmah represents the four elements in their purest form.

Development for Beginners: As you are sniffing each spice, mentally identify what it is that you smell. Say something to the effect of, ‘This is what [insert name of spice or food] smells like. I am strengthening my sense of smell as part of my psychic development.’

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Development for Beginners: As you are sniffing each spice, mentally identify what it is that you smell. Say something to the effect of, ‘This is what [insert name of spice or food] smells like. I am strengthening my sense of smell as part of my psychic development.’