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courage, patience, soft power, self-mastery
The lion is not beaten, it is calmed. The strength in this card is the refusal to meet force with force. Endurance, gentleness under pressure, and the quiet confidence that does not need to prove itself.
Reversed
self-doubt, raw impulse, forced patience
Either the animal is running the situation, or patience is being performed while resentment builds underneath it.