Well, if it IS so, that all the stars in the picture (not just the one in the top left hand corner that Crowley is clearly referring to) are 'points of spiritual or metaphysical light' (because they are 'outside' the globe in the centre), then everything else in the card 'outside' the Celestial Sphere must be spiritual or metaphysical things as well ?
If so where is the 'star lady', who ' is definitely personified as a human-seeming figure...' and upon what does she pour her fluid and why are there crystals, butterflies and other things that live and grow upon the Earth present in the bottom right hand corner?
We have to remember 2 things here;
1. Frieda's doesnt always use conventional perspectives.
2. The difficulty of executing the concept in flat drawings and painting.
The arrangement of the card has everything to do with artistic license and little to do with the classical concept.
To execute it in the classical sense there would be a symbol representing the ideal or Platonic form of Nuit. Then there would be the celestial sphere 'inside' that. Then a sphere of the zodiac inside that, then a sphere of Saturn in side that; then the other 'planetary spheres' with earth at the centre.
I believe Frieda opted for a type of ; 3 symbolic sketches placed in one, a bit like a comic stip with no borders and making one image.
To see it literally; that all the physical Universe is inside that sphere and hence everything on the card aside from that is outside the Celestial Sphere and are spiritual or metaphysical symbols then one has to see all forms (including crystals and butterflies) as being generated on a spiritual of metaphysical level and not as processes that evolve from archetypes as they progress down through the spheres. And that must also apply to the 'planet' on which the woman stands and pours the water ... and the action of pouring the water, ie, this action is metaphysical and spiritual as well?
The way I see it is the star of Babalon represents the archetype' in the cosmos this reflected through Venus, to the Earth ( which IS actually Venus ... but we better not go there today
) and into the 'star woman' and the Earth itself creating the crystalline forms and life.
As an agricultural alchemist I see the principles clearly displayed; modern biodynamic and some organic agriculture and ancient agriculture use the 'cosmic forces' of the planets and constellations. This is captured and contained in various ways and when needed and distributed is mixed with water for application in biodynamics; 2 main substances are used 500 and 501 ( which is made from crushed rods of crystalline quartz) one for the ground and one for the atmosphere.
For me the Star card is a clear visual of that process ; the collection of 'star energy' into water and dispersing it on land and air to assist in the formation and growth ... that relates to Venus. It has a second internal alchemical usage, which I have written about elsewhere, this is indicated by the figure pouring water upon herself.
I cant actually subscribe to the ; every form (including butterflies) is generated at the uppermost archetypal level outside the physical cosmos idea. I prefer the 'seed from' concept, with one of those being an ability, inside the celestial Sphere to grow evolve and develop. IMO the first is like a literal Genesis biblical idea and , in a way, denies physical evolution, the second accounts for it. IMO 'creation', is imbued with its own modifiable feedback loops in an evolving and growing process and not in a state of stasis.