Tarot Card of the Month December - Strength

This month’s Tarot Card is from the Major Arcana and is Strength.

The theme of this card is inner strength, courage, resilience, patience, compassion and mastery of your emotions.

If you are facing feelings of self-doubt or insecurity, emotional overwhelm, feeling powerless or out of alignment or even feeling angry or frustrated, then this card is showing up this month with advice for you to return to your centre. 

Trust your inner power and lead with love, not fear.

As we move into this month’s energy, rich with both celebration and emotional intensity, the Tarot offers us a guiding archetype: Strength.

Strength is the reminder that even in the busiest, most socially charged time of year, your true power comes from inner steadiness, compassion, and quiet courage.

This card doesn’t speak of force. It speaks of grace under pressure, heart-forward leadership, and the kind of resilience that comes from deep alignment with Self.

Especially during the festive period, where expectations, family dynamics, and busyness can rise, this archetype is here to support you.

In Relationships & Love:
Strength brings a warm, heart-centred energy into relationships this month.

In partnerships:
You will notice that conflicts will soften, patience rises, communication deepens and the desire to understand, outweighs the need to be “right”. You may find yourself able to hold space for deeper vulnerability, for both your own and your partner’s.

If single: 
Strength encourages self-love, confidence, and authenticity. This is an excellent time for magnetising connections that see and value the real you.

In family dynamics (very important for the festive season): 
You stand in your calm centre and you no longer take on old roles or emotional burdens. You diffuse tension simply by being grounded and responding instead of reacting.

In Career, Purpose and Financial Matters:
Strength in career is about quiet influence.
This month you may notice that you lead without pushing and that people come to you for steadiness as your confidence grows naturally. Creative solutions replace stress and you are guided by intuition rather than urgency.
It’s an excellent time for difficult conversations handled with grace, stabilising or rebuilding confidence and stepping into a role that requires emotional maturity.

Financially:
The Strength Tarot card encourages patience and wise choices. Follow intuition over impulse, especially during holiday spending.

Wellbeing & Emotional Energy:
Strength supports nervous-system regulation. Saying no when needed, resting before burnout, breathing through pressure, moving gently, and choosing soulful presence over performance. This is a month to honour your body and trust its signals.
Strength During the Festive Season:
This card is especially powerful now because December (or any holiday season) can amplify:
Expectations
Emotional triggers
Old family patterns

Social overwhelm:
The pressure to be everything to everyone
Strength says:
“Your softness is enough.
Your presence is enough.
Your boundaries are enough.”
It guides you to move through the season with clarity, calm energy, and compassion, for yourself first.

Opportunities this month:
To deepen emotional maturity, heal old instinctual responses, strengthen boundaries kindly, leading with heart and integrity, staying centered amidst holiday chaos and showing up as the best version of yourself, even in challenging settings.

Possible Shadows to Watch:
Overgiving, self-doubt, mental spiraling, feeling responsible for others’ emotions or slipping into old holiday-triggered patterns.
The Strength Tarot Card reassures you: you can stay centred even when others are not.

Affirmation of the Month:
“I lead with my heart. My presence is my power.”
Often when we are feeling pushed by life’s challenges, we may feel what we are facing is beyond us, that we are too emotional or too weak to overcome whatever is on our path.  This is a reminder to observe the many challenges you have already faced in life and that you have overcome them all and that you are indeed strong.

This Tarot card reading of the month comes to you from Ann Stern, she is available at the shop two days a week for personal readings. 
Call to book with Ann on:- 01923 852523