The Lovers and Strength

Desire drawn with the card that handles it, which the tradition reads without any suggestion that desire is the problem. Strength does not cage the lion. The pair is about wanting something and remaining in charge of yourself, which are not in conflict.

Associated with strong attraction handled well, and with the difference between restraint and suppression.

Read for wanting something badly and behaving well about it. The pair regards that as a skill rather than a compromise.

You do not have to want it less. Strength is about how you carry it, not about how much of it there is.