The short answer
Yes. Strength is read as affirmative in essentially every list, and the manner of the yes is as distinctive as the fact of it. The affirmative belongs to endurance rather than to victory, and the card is unusually explicit about which of the two it is describing.
Why the card reads that way
A woman closes a lion's jaws with her hands, calmly, wearing flowers rather than armour, with the same infinity sign above her head that the Magician has. Nothing in the picture is a struggle.
The affirmative follows from that. The card describes a difficulty that is being handled, and handled by patience rather than by overpowering it. So the yes it gives is about capacity to endure a situation rather than about the situation being easy, which is a narrower claim than the word alone conveys.
The placement supports the reading. Strength sits next to the Chariot in the sequence and the pair are usually taught together as two answers to the same problem, one by grip and one by patience. Where the Chariot's yes depends on holding on, this one depends on not needing to, which is a materially different promise.
Reversed
Reversed, the usual readings are self-doubt, force used where patience was needed, or endurance that has run out. Most lists move to no, though a fair number keep a weak yes and read the reversal as the answer being right and the method wrong.
That split is worth knowing about before you take a reversed Strength as a refusal.
Where yes-or-no readings come from
Binary readings are a compression invented for speed, not something the tradition contains. The written material describes attitudes and pressures, and it has no procedure for converting those into a ruling on a closed question.
The compression is also inconsistent. Different readers assign different polarities, artwork nudges the assignment, and the result is that a verdict says as much about whose list you consulted as about the card you drew.
A better question to ask
Ask what the difficult thing in this situation actually needs from you, and whether you have been supplying force where patience would work.
That is the card's own subject and it can be answered by looking at your own behaviour this week. Whether the thing resolves is not the card's subject, and this site does not treat a draw as evidence about it either way.
