Strength and Death

Endurance drawn with the one card in the deck that cannot be endured, and the tradition treats it as the honest limit of the virtue. Strength handles the lion; it does not handle this. The pair is about the difference between a hard thing and a final one.

Associated with holding a relationship together past the point where holding is the question. The pair is kind about the effort and clear about the result.

Read for something being sustained that has already ended. The pair does not blame the sustaining.

Your patience is not the variable here. Spending more of it is the one thing that will not change the outcome.