Strength Tarot Year Card (8): Meaning and Birthdays

A year of Strength

Strength holds a year of a quieter kind of power. The woman on the card closes the lion's mouth without force. Situations this year tend to reward patience, steadiness and kindness over pressure, and old fears or appetites may come up to be met rather than fought.

What the year asks

It asks you to stay with what is difficult, your own or someone else's, without either giving in or crushing it. The shadow is endurance that becomes self-suppression.

Sitting with it

Pick the reaction you most want to change and practise meeting it slowly. Notice each time patience gets you further than force.

Questions for the year

What in me needs taming with kindness, not punishment?
Where would patience be braver than action?
What am I enduring that I should be addressing?

Who has Strength as a year card

Under Greer's method, in 2026 Strength is the year card for 40 of the 366 birthdays (11%): January 6, 15 and 24; February 5, 14 and 23; March 4, 13, 22 and 31; April 3, 12, 21 and 30; May 2, 11, 20 and 29; June 1, 10, 19 and 28; July 9, 18 and 27; August 8, 17 and 26; September 7, 16 and 25; October 6, 15 and 24; November 5, 14 and 23; December 4, 13 and 22.

Under Greer's method, in 2027 Strength is the year card for 39 of the 366 birthdays (11%): January 5, 14 and 23; February 4, 13 and 22; March 3, 12, 21 and 30; April 2, 11, 20 and 29; May 1, 10, 19 and 28; June 9, 18 and 27; July 8, 17 and 26; August 7, 16 and 25; September 6, 15 and 24; October 5, 14 and 23; November 4, 13 and 22; December 3, 12 and 21.

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The card itself

Strength: full tarot card meaning

The gentleness it takes to stay with what frightens you.

If it is also your birth card

Strength is also a birth card for some people. In the year it comes round as your year card, the theme you were born with is the one the year brings up.

Birth cards that include Strength

Strength · 8
The Star and Strength · 17 · 8

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