Your Chosen Card – Lust or Strength Upright Thoth Deck
When upright, the Lust or Strength/Lust card suggests a need to face a situation with courage, determination, and fortitude, much as Hercules did when he confronted the Nemean Lion. Your animal passions are stirring and may conflict with your ‘civilized’ self. You are feeling lustily powerful and thoroughly enjoy the use of your body. Health improves, and your energy increases. Issues related to sexuality come up for review. The connection of the Lust or Strength card with the sign Leo and with the Sun suggests that this may be a time of compassionate self-examination, which can lead to enlightenment. Leo is known for its warmth, generosity, and lusty enjoyment of life.
Keywords Upright: Courage, bravery, passion, heroism, self-esteem, fortitude, mettle, true grit, vitality, moral fiber, strength in the face of adversity, wildness, lust, libido, burning desire, sexual instincts, powerful emotions, kundalini, taming the beast within, suppression of inordinate fear, the curbing of recklessness.
Key VIII: Lust or Strength (Fortitude, Lust). This card is numbered XI in traditional Marseille decks.
Myths/Archetypes: The Hero. Joan of Arc. The Dragon Slayer. The Satyr. Hercules and the Nemean Lion. David and Goliath. Samson and Delilah. Kundalini.
Dates of Leo: 23 July23 August; 18 August16 September (sidereal)
Astrology: Leo, the Lion (a Fire sign ruled by the Sun)
Numerology: 8 (Lust or Strength, or Justice) = 1 + 7 (The Star)
Hebrew letter: Lamed (an ox goad, or a shepherds staff that guides the herd; a Hebrew word meaning to teach, learn, yoke, bind, control, defend, protect; to/toward; also a scholar, an authority, or a leader of the flock). The virtue of Lust or Strength is like a shepherds staff that directs the human race toward just and lawful behavior.
When Lust or Strength is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If Lust or Strength is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is Lust or 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 upright card reading for Lust or Strength using cards from the Thoth 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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World of Psychics: In the Thoth deck the camel at the base of the card always reminds me to hold out for what I want and the clear quartz crystals surrounding the priestess remind me to be sure about what I want! This card means divine guidance and a helping hand, but it can also warn me to make sure someone is what they say they are. If I have been overdoing things with the Tarot, this card often falls from the deck. Its one of two cards that I take to mean, Enough, put them away and get on with other things!
Reversed Cards: There is no doubt that expansion is at hand in this card. No matter what way you look at it, there is a want, need, desire for more than what you currently have. But how is that driving you, pushing you, and dictating your actions? Like it or not, some people will be ruthless to get what they want. They dont care who they hurt in the process or what sort of shady antics they have to pull off just as long as the end result is what they want. If this card has shown up in your daily draw or weekly spread, take a moment to think about the consequences of your current actions both big and small. Especially the small, as it is often the small, little, barely noticeable things that we do, say, feel, or think that give off the biggest and widest ripple effects.
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