Strength Tarot Ritual: Courage Ceremony

19. december 2025

BY NICOLE LAU

Strength gently tames the lion through love, patience, and inner power. This ritual combines Strength's energy with conscious intention to help you cultivate courage, tame your fears, and claim your gentle strength. This is conscious courage at its most powerful—deliberate, compassionate, and unstoppable.

Why the Strength Ritual?

Strength represents inner power, courage, and gentle mastery. This ritual is designed to help you connect with your inner strength, face your fears with love, and cultivate the courage that comes from within.

This ritual is ideal for:

Cultivating inner courage and confidence
Taming fears with compassion
Claiming your gentle strength
Facing challenges with patience
Connecting to your inner power
Overcoming self-doubt

Timing Your Ritual

Optimal timing: Sunday (Sun/Leo day), during Leo season (July 23-August 22), or at noon
Also powerful: Waxing Moon for building courage, or when facing major fears
Duration: 60-90 minutes for full ritual, 30 minutes for simplified version

What You'll Need

Essential Items:

Strength tarot card
Golden or orange candle (Leo/courage energy)
Symbol of your fear (image, word, object)
Symbol of your courage (image, word, object)
Paper and pen
Flowers (representing gentle strength)

Optional Enhancements:

Citrine or sunstone crystal
Frankincense or cinnamon incense
White cloth for altar
Bell or singing bowl

Preparation

Cleanse your space
Bathe and dress in golden, orange, or white clothing
Set up altar facing east (direction of courage)
Turn off all devices
Get clear on intention: What fear needs taming? What courage do you seek?

The Strength Courage Ritual: Step by Step

Part 1: Opening Sacred Space (10 minutes)

Stand before your altar with openness and courage. Take three deep breaths, gathering your inner strength in your heart.

Place Strength card in center. Arrange candle, symbols, flowers around it.

Light the candle, speaking:

"I light this flame to honor Strength,
Master of courage, tamer of lions,
Gentle power, patient strength.
On this day, I cultivate my courage.
I tame my fears with love.
I claim my gentle strength.
I am ready to be brave."

Part 2: Naming Your Fear (10 minutes)

Sit before your altar. Take your symbol of fear and hold it.

Speak:

"This is my fear.
This is my lion.
This is what I must tame.
I see it clearly.
I name it now."

Name your fear aloud. Be specific. What are you afraid of?

Write on paper: "My Fear: [name it]"

Below, write how this fear has limited you, what it has cost you.

Place the symbol of your fear on the left side of Strength card. This is your lion to tame.

Part 3: Claiming Your Courage (10 minutes)

Now take your symbol of courage and hold it.

Speak:

"This is my courage.
This is my strength.
This is my power.
I claim it now."

Turn paper over and write: "My Courage: [name it]"

Below, write what courage will give you, how it will change your life.

Place symbol of courage on right side of Strength card. This is your power.

Part 4: Taming with Love (15 minutes)

Stand before your altar. Embody Strength—gentle, powerful, fearless.

Speak:

"I am Strength.
I tame my lion with love, not force.
I face my fear with courage, not aggression.
I master my nature with compassion, not violence.
I am gentle. I am powerful. I am brave."

Visualize yourself approaching your lion (your fear). See yourself reaching out with love, not force. Watch as the lion submits to your gentle touch.

Gently close the lion's mouth with your hands (in visualization). Feel your mastery. Feel your courage. This is Strength.

Take the symbol of your fear and either burn it safely, bury it, or transform it. The lion is tamed.