The Star
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| Wands | Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King. |
| Cups | Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King. |
| Swords | Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King. |
| Pentacles | Ace 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King. |
| Aces, Twos, Threes, Fours, Fives, Sixes, Sevens, Eights, Nines, Tens, Pages, Knights, Queens, Kings | |
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Description
Rider Waite Deck
from The Pictorial Key to Tarot by A.E. Waite
A great, radiant star of eight rays, surrounded by seven lesser stars--also of eight rays. The female figure in the foreground is entirely naked. Her left knee is on the land and her right foot upon the water. She pours Water of Life from two great ewers, irrigating sea and land. Behind her is rising ground and on the right a shrub or tree, whereon a bird alights. The figure expresses eternal youth and beauty. The star is l'étoile flamboyante, which appears in Masonic symbolism, but has been confused therein. That which the figure communicates to the living scene is the substance of the heavens and the elements. It has been said truly that the mottoes of this card are "Waters of Life freely" and "Gifts of the Spirit."
The summary of several tawdry explanations says that it is a card of hope. On other planes it has been certified as immortality and interior light. For the majority of prepared minds, the figure will appear as the type of Truth unveiled, glorious in undying beauty, pouring on the waters of the soul some part and measure of her priceless possession. But she is in reality the Great Mother in the Kabalistic Sephira Binah, which is supernal Understanding, who communicates to the Sephiroth that are below in the measure that they can receive her influx.
Meanings
- revelation, meditation
- Align imagination with emotion to gain an emotional insight and build greater mental strength.
- hope
- truth
- foreboding, prophesies that come true (derived from the connection star - astrology)
- the calm and refreshed athmosphere after a storm (both literal and metaphorical)
- abundance, unconditional gifts, agape (derived from the symbol of pouring out the water freely and in abundance)
Reversed Meaning
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Correspondences
- Links Netzach to Yesod as path number 28 of the Tree of Life
- Colour violet
- Aquarius in the zodiac
- The direction South-above (from the Sepher Yetzirah)
- Yetziratic Intelligence - the Natural intelligence
- Musical note A sharp (Paul Case)
- Hebrew letter Tzaddi meaning Fish Hook and also the number 90
- Organic Time - The Spirit of the Twentieth Century The outcome of the first World War resulted in a shift of power even further to the west. People began to realize another unification was upon them, they vigorously rejoiced in the fresh blood of the world economy and new ways of thought and belief. In the roaring twenties, popular culture saw the flourishing of communist ideologies and the shredding of conventional perspectives.
Aleister Crowley asigns the Star to He and the Emperor to Tzaddi.
