Strength Tarot Meditation: Embodying Inner Power

BY NICOLE LAU

Strength gently closes the lion's mouth, taming the beast through love, patience, and inner power. This guided meditation uses Strength's archetypal energy to help you connect with your inner courage, tame your fears, and cultivate the gentle strength that overcomes all obstacles. This is about remembering that your greatest power comes from within, and that love is stronger than force.

About This Meditation

Duration: 20-25 minutes
Best practiced: When needing courage, facing fears, or cultivating inner strength
You'll need: Quiet space, comfortable position, optional Leo imagery or Strength card

Preparation

• Find quiet space
• Have Strength card visible if available
• Optional: Light golden or orange candle (Leo/courage energy)
• Set intention: What fear needs taming? What courage do you seek?
• Sit comfortably with open heart
• Turn off all devices

The Strength Meditation: Guided Journey

Grounding and Opening (5 minutes)

Close your eyes and bring awareness to your breath. Inhale courage, exhale fear. Continue until you feel centered and calm.

Imagine yourself in a beautiful garden—peaceful, safe, filled with flowers. This is your inner sanctuary, where your true strength resides.

Feel your inner power gathering in your heart—a warm, golden light of courage and compassion. This is your strength. This is your power.

You are ready to meet your lion.

Meeting Your Lion (5 minutes)

In your mind's eye, see a lion approaching. This is your lion—your fears, your passions, your wild nature, everything you've been afraid to face.

The lion is powerful and magnificent. It could be dangerous. But you are not afraid.

Strength speaks through you: "I see you, lion. I am not afraid of you. I will not fight you. I will love you."

The lion stops. It looks at you with recognition. It has been waiting for this moment—waiting for you to approach with love instead of fear.

What does your lion look like? What does it represent? Name it silently.

Taming with Love (7 minutes)

Slowly, gently, approach your lion. Feel the golden light of courage in your heart growing stronger, warmer, brighter.

Strength speaks: "I tame you not with force, but with love. I master you not through violence, but through compassion. I am not your enemy—I am your friend."

Reach out your hand. Touch the lion's mane. Feel its power, its strength, its wild nature. This is part of you. This is your power too.

The lion leans into your touch. It submits willingly to your gentle strength. No force needed. No violence required. Just love, patience, and the quiet confidence of someone who knows their own power.

Gently, lovingly, close the lion's mouth with your hands. Feel its surrender. Feel your mastery. This is Strength.

The lion is tamed. The beast is yours. Your fear has become your ally.

Claiming Your Courage (5 minutes)

The lion lies down at your feet, calm and peaceful. You have tamed it with love.

Strength speaks: "This is your power. This courage is yours. This gentle strength is real. You can face anything with love and patience."

Feel the golden light in your heart expanding, filling your entire body. This is your inner strength. This is your courage. This is your power.

What will you do with this strength? What fear will you face? What challenge will you overcome?

The lion looks at you with love and loyalty. It is yours now. Your fear has become your strength.

Integration (3 minutes)

Thank your lion. Thank Strength. Thank yourself for having the courage to tame with love instead of force.

The garden is always there. The lion is always yours. The strength is always available—when you're ready to approach with love.

Return (2 minutes)

Slowly bring awareness back to your physical body. Feel your breath. Feel your seat. Feel the courage still glowing in your heart.

The lion is tamed. The strength is yours. The only question is: what will you do with this gentle power?

When you're ready, open your eyes. Notice how you feel. You should feel more courageous, more powerful, more gentle.

Post-Meditation Practice

• Journal: Write about your lion and what you tamed
• Take action: Within 24 hours, face one fear with courage
• Tame with love: Approach one challenge with compassion instead of force
• Embody courage: Stand in your gentle strength throughout your day

Working with This Meditation

Daily practice: 10-minute version focusing on connecting with your lion and inner strength.

Before challenges: Practice to gather courage and gentle power.

When feeling afraid: Return to the garden and tame your fear with love.

Weekly practice: Use to maintain inner strength and courage.

Signs the Meditation is Working

• Greater courage and confidence
• Ability to face fears with love instead of force
• Feeling more gentle yet powerful
• Taming challenges with patience and compassion
• Inner strength that doesn't need to prove itself
• Sense of calm power and quiet confidence

Closing Wisdom

Strength's power isn't a place you visit—it's a state you embody. You are the courage. You are the gentle strength. You are the tamer of lions.

May your meditation be powerful.
May your courage be gentle.
May your lion be tamed.
May you remember that you are Strength.

The lion is always there. The power to tame is always yours. The only question is: are you ready to approach with love?