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.StrengthA naked woman kneels by a pool, one foot on land and one in water, pouring from two vessels: one back into the pool, one onto the earth.The Star

Card combination

Strength and The Star

The tradition reads this as what endurance is for. Strength does the holding and The Star is the state on the other side of it, unguarded, unhurried and not braced. The pair is favourable and it is specifically about the relief arriving rather than being promised.

Together

The tradition reads this as what endurance is for. Strength does the holding and The Star is the state on the other side of it, unguarded, unhurried and not braced. The pair is favourable and it is specifically about the relief arriving rather than being promised.

In love

Associated with a period of strain genuinely being over, and with learning to stop bracing.

In career

Read for recovery after a sustained difficult stretch. The pair is warm about it.

The advice

It is actually over. Staying ready for it is the habit to notice, because the readiness is now the only hard part left.

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