Strength is a pretty misunderstood card for those who don't understand the tarot. This card is never about brute force. Instead, it's about showing strength through restraint. Normally, we'd see the maiden in this card holding a lion's mouth, but here, we see this vixen holding another dangerous predator, a banded cobra. One would be right to think that a lion should be there, but the habitats of fennec foxes and African lions do not overlap (They probably did centuries, if not millennia ago.) As sort of a consolation prize for the lion, look at the snake. A trained eye will notice it's curled up into the shape of Leo's astrological insignia.

Fennec foxes (Vulpes zerda) are the smallest species of fox in the world, only growing to barely more than 16" from nose to tail. Living in the Sahara Desert of northern Africa, their massive ears coupled with their diminutive size helps them to keep cool in the hot desert sun.