How About the Star

Ruby Jewel

Like Temperance, the Star has been somewhat opaque for me. I usually think of her as Hope because one of the first decks I used back in the 80s was Liz Greene's Mythic Tarot. In that deck she is Pandora on her knees watching all the ill-boding critters fly out into the world after she opened the "forbidden" box. The only thing left in the box for Mankind was Hope. With the Tower on one side and the Moon on the other, Hope is the one possibility left.

So, how do the rest of you interpret the Star?
 

Amanda

Last night, I drew my daily card for today and it was the Page of Wands. I interpreted this as a message was coming in. Sometimes I ask for clarifiers, and for the Page I drew the Star. I thought, "Okay, well that doesn't seem so bad."

Not long after I woke up this morning, my mother sent me a text saying that her dog (which is a brother to mine) passed on.

I was sad, but at peace with this. It reminded me that the Star can have to do with spiritual/otherworldly things.
 

Ruby Jewel

Amanda_04 said:
Last night, I drew my daily card for today and it was the Page of Wands. I interpreted this as a message was coming in. Sometimes I ask for clarifiers, and for the Page I drew the Star. I thought, "Okay, well that doesn't seem so bad."

Not long after I woke up this morning, my mother sent me a text saying that her dog (which is a brother to mine) passed on.

I was sad, but at peace with this. It reminded me that the Star can have to do with spiritual/otherworldly things.
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Yes, that is sad. I'm very much a lover of all animals. They are so innocent and full of love...like little children. Maybe that is what the Star is about.....love and innocence. I'm glad your dog is okay.
 

Amanda

Ruby Jewel said:
Yes, that is sad. I'm very much a lover of all animals. They are so innocent and full of love...like little children. Maybe that is what the Star is about.....love and innocence. I'm glad your dog is okay.
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Yeah, makes me hold mine a little closer.
 

SweetSiren

When I see The Star, I don't simply think of holding on hope.. I think of the feeling that accompanies hope. That existential, euphoric sigh. Like lying in a hammock star-gazing and listening to a brook in the distance. That feeling is what can give us hope because it touches the soul and asks it to push a little farther to get more of that feeling.

Seeing it in a reading I think, What is creating or blocking this feeling for this person? Does this feeling lead the person down a path that is beneficial for them?
 

Thirteen

Ruby Jewel said:
So, how do the rest of you interpret the Star?
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The star is the glimmer of a future. Which is why it's "hope." Because so long as you can see the glimmer of a future, you have hope. In fact, with Aquarius as its sign, it's always looking to the future. It may offer a taste of something in the now, a healing draught, but it isn't about what's happening in the present, or even tomorrow. This is the future and it requires commitment.

When ships were lost at sea, they searched for the north star to guide them. As long as they could find that star, there was hope that they might find their way, get to wherever they were going. The star doesn't of course, promise you'll get there. But it does promise that you have a chance of getting there if you're willing to let the star guide you, put in the time, and not give up that hope.
 

Pam O

Seeing lots of Star cards at www.albideuter.de

I love the site albideuter.de, and copyright approval is granted, so we can share it here at Aeclectic! :)

Here are the star cards all compared that he has on the site. Enjoy!
http://www.albideuter.de/html/stern.html

NOTE:
Since it is German based, it can be opened using Google translate to see English (or your preferred language).this particular page does not matter so much since it is primarily card images...
 

ravenest

It ( the star) is also our aspirations and inspirations.

Also our potential for 'higher awareness'.

" ... That star upon the serpent's head
Is called the soul of man.
That light in shadows subtly shed
The glamour of life's plan.
The sea whereon that lotus grows
Is thought's abyss of tears and woes.

Leave Sirenusa! Even Greece
Forget! they are not there!
By worship cometh not the Peace,
The Silence not by prayer.
Leave the illusions, life and time
And Death, and seek that star sublime,

Until the lotus and the sea
And snake no longer are,
And single through Eternity
Exists alone the Star
And utter Knowledge rise, and cease
In that which is beyond the Peace! "

On this level I am seeing the Star as the 'essence of self' , 'Every Man and every Woman is a Star', each with its own orbit, path, direction, True Will. So it is about following the light of your star. The essence that animates us, and 'survives the 'greater death' ; the 'immortal Osiris' as Crowley called it, the Akh - the 'glorified spirit' - as the ancient Egyptians called it .

http://maat.sofiatopia.org/itrine.jpg
 

ravenest

Pam O said:
I love the site albideuter.de, and copyright approval is granted, so we can share it here at Aeclectic! :)

Here are the star cards all compared that he has on the site. Enjoy!
http://www.albideuter.de/html/stern.html

NOTE:
Since it is German based, it can be opened using Google translate to see English (or your preferred language).this particular page does not matter so much since it is primarily card images...
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I like the 'Herr der Ringe / Lord of the Ring' version. Reminds me that a star can be a 'falling star' or a comet ... and some say comets bought water to earth. Besides that, I like the way the image of her is depicted poring into ( or pouring out ? ) an ocean.
 
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