Welcome to Tarot for Scholars, a resource that helps you weave the deep wisdom of tarot into your daily life and work. In each post, we offer reflections and prompts for exploring your own inner world and unlocking the unique creative power of your scholarship.
Strength
About this card
Befriending the wildness within. Integrating instinct and reason. The continual evolution of the mature self. Can refer to a surrender, transcendence, and/or integration of ego: losing yourself to find yourself. The courage to find or rebuild the true self, setting aside masks and armor and the expectations of the world at large. The strength that can only come from inside.
Other interpretations
Margy’s cards, clockwise from top left: Radiant Tarot; New Chapter Tarot; Cosmic Slumber Tarot; Shining Tribe Tarot; Elemental Tarot; Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea; Spolia Tarot; Tarot of the Spirit.
Helen’s cards, clockwise from top left: Moon & Stars Tarot; Light Seer’s Tarot; Japaridze Tarot; Canes Arcanae; Star Spinner Tarot; Muse Tarot; Tarot of Mystical Moments; Forest of Enchantment Tarot.
Questions and prompts
What masks or armor do you tend to wear in your scholarly work? Where and how might you experiment with setting them aside in order to let your authentic self shine through?
Reflect on times when your instinct has proven trustworthy in your work. When has your instinct nudged you toward fruitful questions to explore? How has it guided your explorations?
Do you think of yourself as mature? In what ways are you and your work more mature now than they have been in the past?
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Yours in scholarship,
HELEN SWORD is a scholar, poet, award-winning teacher, and founder of the WriteSPACE, an international writing community with members in 30+ countries. Her research-based books, articles, and online tools empower scholarly writers to write more clearly, confidently, prolifically, and with greater pleasure.
Visit Helen’s website here.
MARGY THOMAS is the creator of ScholarShape, a body of work dedicated to elucidating the patterns of Story-Argument across genres, disciplines, and life itself. Through services and DIY resources, Margy helps scholars use Story-Argument patterns to design their work — and to find its deeper meaning and higher purpose.
Visit Margy’s website here.
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