The TdF's Strength depicts a young girl in the mouth of a sea dragon; some sort of serpentine fish. Incidentally, the Hebrew letter associated with Strength is Teth , a snake. This is representative of Kuṇdalinī , AKA the Serpent-power. It has 21 eyes like the Tarot has 21 Major Arcana beneath the Fool. We could infer that the seabeast is the Fool itself, in that it contains all of the other Principles within itself. To the left and the right of the girl are two swords, which represent the Element of Air. Air, in turn, represents thought, the mind, and the astral realm. Although she has a stump where one of her legs should be, she seems to be triumphing over the beast, or at least in harmony with it, without making use of the swords. She possesses an awakened third eye. Thus, her strength lies in knowledge (the 3rd eye), but not in the sort of knowledge that is the domain of the mind (swords). Neither does her strength lie in literal violence. According to the Tantrik teaching on...
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