Strength
Wow…I actually finished! I used a lot of the symbols that mean things to me. Fall, my favorite time of year, so I used that as the background, and the colors for strength traditionally are red, orange, and yellow ~ fire.
It is very hard trying to find images to represent Intuition and strength that my soul is strong, that I have self control, that there is peace controlling all the inner desires. This is just so hard to do. That we can walk through the fear and have strength. And that the accomplishment becomes a part of our very beings. How does anyone portray that in images?
That you have somehow moved up the spiritual ladder, although most of the time in my deepest feelings I feel that I have gone lower on the ladder. Fighting with eternal intuition and strength. What is my personal desire that I have trouble fighting? Problem with my money. Mainly because I have dyslexia and that becomes a major issue with me trying to handle my money. Trying to get debt free, not feeling like I am getting anywhere. The concept of money eludes me, and is the most frustrating thing in my life. It is the bane of my existence.
So in my card I made sure to include a hand throwing up money. It represents that I am trying to deal with my money…and that at times it gets the best of me, it shames me, it makes me crazy, but my inner strength will eventually prevail!
The beast in the background on the bridge is faded out to a ghost in order to represent all those issues with material forces that I have overcome. The beast is lacking in true power against me, it no longer has the power to command me. The bridge represents the choices and getting passed what it is you know you have to overcome. In front of the fading beast I sit in the sun light of knowledge and contentment.
I used my favorite cat – Hooter, who passed away this year as the representation of the lion in my card. She was almost 20 years old, and she was fiercely loyal to those who she loved. She was the “Great Hooter Warrior”; she had no fear even if the other cat was twice her size. She was almost a person!
Part of my strength comes from Michael, so in this card I incorporated the Nordic God Odin and the Tiger to represent him. Small fairies are flying around the tiger; these are the creatures I decided to use in my card to represent the fact that you don’t have to be large warriors to survive! So there are many fairies in the card, along with an alter with fairies dancing the dance of life.
I like the feeling of magic, and unicorns and princesses just seem to fit, especially in a card about strength and using fairies as a creature of that inner strength. Innocence has a very intense strength in its core.
I used the first two lines of the song Enchanted by Stevie Nicks in the card…
Crying in the morning trying to be strong
Waiting for the Spring to turn into the Fall
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