Quiet courage. The thing you are white-knuckling can be met with patience and a gentle hand instead of force.
Self-doubt, raw force, or gentleness abandoned for control.
“FORTITUDE.—Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity; also complete success and honours. Reversed: Despotism, abuse if power, weakness, discord, sometimes even disgrace. 9. THE HERMIT.—Prudence, circumspection; also and especially treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption. Reversed: Concealment, disguise, policy, fear,…”— Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911
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