Our Relationship to Power: Pluto and Mars Retrograde and the Strength Tarot Card

VIII:  Strength
From the Shadowscapes Tarot; artwork by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law

"....The Chinese know the strength of bamboo.  It is a strength that does not need to shout of its power to the world but sways and bows to the wind, then springs gracefully forward again with a melodious rustle of leaves...The maiden steps forward.  She is as willowy as the stalks of the bamboo grove she emerges from.  Step by step, unafraid, she approaches the beast.  The king of the wilds watches her, and she meets him eye to eye... She smiles as she comes within arm's length, and at her touch, the great golden head bows." ~Barbara Moore