Best Strength Cards
decan
Strength is the Tarot of White Cats is nice.
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EmpyreanKnight
That's one yuuuge lion. I approve!
Though I dunno, the white cat in his mouth looks appetizing. For the lion I mean. But I don't think he'd get eaten since that would be very much against the Strength archetype.
decan
Yes, the cat here must have a huge strength; but if he/she hasn't the cat could become a good meal!
Dee Ell
I like Strength in Cathy McClelland's long-awaited full deck coming out (finally!!) this May: http://www.cathymcclelland.com/html/tarot.htm
While it does skirt the issue of *how* - as someone on the previous page mentioned - aside from the overall aesthetics of the card, I like that the lemniscate is over her torso (rather than her head) and is centered (and glowing) over her solar plexus.
While it does skirt the issue of *how* - as someone on the previous page mentioned - aside from the overall aesthetics of the card, I like that the lemniscate is over her torso (rather than her head) and is centered (and glowing) over her solar plexus.
EmpyreanKnight
Yes, the cat here must have a huge strength; but if he/she hasn't the cat could become a good meal!
That gave me an idea. Perhaps if the lion just lies on his back to simulate a reversed Strength card, the cat would get so disoriented he'd slide down the lion's gullet. I'm not anti-cat though! I'd hate it if this happens to our Luna.
Barleywine
I like this one too! It looks like the leonine version of a female centaur.
Nemia
I have also always liked Strength in the Cosmic tarot - the interplay between the outer and inner lion, which is which, and essentially, they're the same - and I love the 80s looks of this deck ;-)
Laura Borealis
To me it's just not Strength. It's Lust, which is fine, but it doesn't stand for Strength to me. That's one thing I appreciate about the Mutational Alchemy tarot, they changed Lust back to Strength.
I don't have the deck, but one Strength I really like is the one from the Dante tarot (the one by the same artist as the Tarot of the Stars Eternal). I love that stylized art. The Strength figure is neither forcing open, nor forcing closed the lion's mouth - she just has it placed in between his jaws. She's also impressively muscular. More buff Strength ladies please!
I'm also very fond of the Silicon Dawn's Strength. In some early decks, Strength (or Force) is shown as a woman with a broken pillar (referring to Samson breaking the pillars of the temple I think) so the Silicon Dawn is a neat twist. Instead of breaking a pillar, she has actually taken the pillar's place, like a caryatid, and is holding up the roof. There's a lion there too, or a lion-human hybrid, looking more like a fierce-acting housecat than a lion, but I like that about it.
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