Tarot Message for January 2024

What do we need to focus on for January and the start of the new year?

As this is going to be another challenging year,  the answer is to develop inner strength.

If we can build resilience at the start of the year, it will help us to navigate the obstacles that will cross our paths during 2024.

Strength

The Strength card and what it means.

Let’s look at the card a little closer …

When we look at the card from Juliet Sharman-Burke’s deck, we see a woman wearing a white robe and a crown of red roses in her hair. She also wears a belt of red roses, and the sun is shining on a peaceful scene.

She is stroking the snout of a lion and holding his jaws open as though she has calmed and tamed him.

The woman is wearing white – a symbol of purity of intention, and the red roses symbolise passion and love.

The lion is a powerful symbol of raw, energy or desire, yet a calm, gentle woman has calmed and tamed this powerful beast.

The Strength card shows us what to do when we face challenges or when self-destructive impulses bubble up inside us. We can use inner strength, self-love, and calmness to overcome and tame negative emotions or selfish desires that may rise up inside us.

We are invited to approach external challenges with internal patience and understanding towards both ourselves and the situation. We will not master ourselves, nor the situation with whips or chains. but rather with calmness, gentleness, and empathy.

Gentleness is not weakness, rather it is like water.

How do we build inner strength?

When we are faced with a challenging situation or we are triggered in some way and want to react out of defensiveness, fear, anger, hurt or rage…

• we can STOP
• we can take 5 breaths
• we can ask ourselves ‘what can I learn from this obstacle?’
• we can tell ourselves that this challenge has come so that we can learn something about ourselves
• we can ask our angels to help us to act in a calm, patient and loving manner so that we can overcome this with grace and resilience.

I wish you much light and love as you embrace inner strength to overcome the obstacles that lie ahead.

Lee-Anne x