A woman closes a lion's jaws with her bare hands and no visible effort, wearing white and a chain of flowers rather than armour.StrengthGabriel blows a trumpet and grey figures rise from open coffins with arms raised.Judgement

Card combination

Strength and Judgement

Patience drawn with a reckoning, and the tradition reads it as a long forbearance being examined. What Judgement asks is whether the patience was virtue or avoidance, and the pair is honest that a person cannot always tell from the inside.

Together

Patience drawn with a reckoning, and the tradition reads it as a long forbearance being examined. What Judgement asks is whether the patience was virtue or avoidance, and the pair is honest that a person cannot always tell from the inside.

In love

Associated with looking back at a period of putting up with something and reassessing what it was.

In career

Read for tolerance being reviewed. The pair does not assume the review goes badly.

The advice

Ask what the patience was serving. That question is answerable in hindsight and almost never at the time.

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