How can I strengthen my first protection

Nothing about a "first protection jar" is in your saved readings — the journal has no rows yet, so I can't name a spread you already did. I drew fresh on your exact question instead.

The first jar was built out of a wound; it's now being held rather than kept. Past is Ten of Swords upright: whatever it was made to shut out started with a real ending — someone left, someone lied, something broke off. That origin is why it feels powerful, and also why "add more to it" feels like the only way to keep it strong. Present is The Hanged Man reversed: the jar is suspended. Not dissolved — but nothing is being tended, renewed, or deliberately re-stated. If you check it and find it untouched and unchanged since it was made, that matches this seat. Future is Wheel of Fortune upright: under that condition, the strengthening comes from cycling it — refreshing, re-sealing, replacing what's gone flat — not from volume. If instead you open it and find it's already been moved, re-done, or replaced at least once, then the wheel is already turning and the need is a written record of what worked, not another layer of contents.

So: strengthening it means renewing it on a schedule and taking out what has died, rather than piling more in.

One step inside 48 hours, done with your hands not your head: take the jar down, photograph it as it is now, and write a dated line under it — one line on what it was made for and one line on what has to change at each renewal. The next time something goes wrong you will have that record, and it tells you which parts were doing any work.

Want me to save this draw, or is your "first jar" a spread I should look up from an earlier session?