What does The Strength Card mean?

How do you interpret The Strength Card of the Rider Waite Tarot, or the Lust Card, ATU XI of the Thoth Tarot? Following are my thoughts on this card. I've also included different ways that it might be interpreted in a reading, to help you understand it when it comes up in your own readings. The human and the lion - make friends with your enemy or that which opposes, overpowers, threatens or preys upon you. Befriend your fears. Are things really what they seem to be? Do you follow what has been taught to you in the past, or do you live by experience? Is this card advising the querent to put mind over matter. Determination will pay off? Is it truly a lion being tamed? Or is it the beast within? The card can refer equally to the inner struggle as it can to the struggles that the outside world throws at us. Does this card tell us that change is coming? That yes we can stave it off, but only whilst we are applying sheer force. What will happen when force is removed? Will circumstances have changed? Will the lion be tamed? Aleister Crowley renamed this card "Lust" in the Thoth Tarot. The reasoning behind it makes perfect sense... think of the imagery on the card, a woman taming a beast - or the masculine. Crowley reminds us