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.StrengthHe hangs from a living T-cross by one ankle, the free leg crossed behind: the figure of a traitor's punishment, wearing an expression of complete calm.The Hanged Man

Card combination

Strength and The Hanged Man

Two cards of holding still, and the tradition separates them carefully. Strength holds on; The Hanged Man lets go and hangs. Drawn together they describe a situation where the endurance has become the obstacle, and the pair does not say that gently.

Together

Two cards of holding still, and the tradition separates them carefully. Strength holds on; The Hanged Man lets go and hangs. Drawn together they describe a situation where the endurance has become the obstacle, and the pair does not say that gently.

In love

Associated with somebody enduring a relationship rather than being in one. The pair reads that as the harder truth of the two cards.

In career

Read for persistence that has stopped producing anything. The pair favours suspension over more effort.

The advice

Stop holding and see what happens. You have proved you can, which is not the same as proving you should.

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