Strength

STRENGTH VIII

Divinatory meanings: Good choices, making the right decision, controlling the wild beast inside your own heart, a good woman, morality. Ethics. Truth.

Yes or No: Yes.

Numerical Value: 8

I really went out on a limb here and did not choose the ordinary symbols used in most decks for this card. I should have, by all accounts, a woman dominating a wild beast. Instead, I have the Governator with a sword. But actually, the symbols still apply: Arnold is in drag, and his sword is the beast!

Why?

Because in California, it’s the Gay folks who rule (not implying anything about Arnold, just about his attractiveness to other men) and the sword is the beast. The beast of violence and destruction represented by an implement created solely for war. What beast could be worse than man? Interestingly, Arnold has the sword pointed “up” which means aggression.

Conan the Barbarian is now a fully developed human being with a balance between his male and female parts fully awakened. A holy Hermaphrodite that has the strength to fully condone the beast without giving it room to destroy, maul and murder.

I wanted to choose somebody who is impeccable. Arnold came to mind. I wanted to choose someone who represents the strength of body and spirit. Again, the Governator was the man. Especially the young Arnold, who comes from Germany to the USA a nobody and in a small time, builds himself to be one of the most important people around.

His lesson to all of us: You too can be like me! All you need to do is to control the wild beast of the id and clamp down on your negative instincts, to build a better person each day.