XVII - The Star

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XVII - The Star

Keywords

Great Potential. Hope. Renewal. Reorient to God. Higher Guidance. Inspiration. Intuition. Imagination. Finding Your Soul’s Purpose. High Ideal. Spiritual Community.

Themes

A star symbolises the transpersonal Self, the Spirit of God within, a guiding force that brings order.

This is a time to listen to the inner voice and be guided. This is a star.
Ensure you have a high ideal. This star will help you to your destiny.
Find your soul's purpose, why you are really here on Earth. This is your star.

As The Star shines on all creatures, it is collective. So, the hope and promise is a Universal Community of Light - brothers and sisters as warriors of Light - working together for Heaven on Earth. We - rather than I - guided by Great Spirit. Many stars shining forth with Heavenly Light.

Comparisons

The woman from Strength is now able to manipulate and direct all that instinctual energy into creative projects for the benefit of all creatures.

The light that shines from The Hermit is personal, whilst the light of The Star blesses everyone and everything.

The Star is a card of waiting, like The Hermit and The Hanged Man.

Only after the darkness of The Devil and the reckoning of The Tower can we see The Star. The forces of Light are sending assistance to the fledgling warriors of Light.

After the destruction of The Tower made by men comes The Star, wrought by Great Spirit. This is an opportunity to connect with a new heavenly lifestyle.

The Star is a spark for a world kept in the dark, as we will become clearer in the sequence of The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, The World.

Notes & Quotes

The girl is naked because she is truth unveiled, and young to represent renewal.

"Be guided by the stars which you place well on the canopy of your night sky." (Mary Anne Radmacher)

"Be like the stars, they only know how to shine from within." (Native Red Cloud)

"Darkness, after all, is what brings the light to life. It’s only against a vast black sky that a guiding star can appear bold and brilliant enough to clearly follow."
(Cygnus Books, 18 December 2013 email excerpt)

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." (Harriet Tubman)

"Fix your eye on the stars, seek the Way.
Speech is a cause of confusion to the sight.
Do not speak."
(Rumi)

"Follow your star and you will never fail to find your glorious port"
(Dante, Inferno, Canto XV)

"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny." (Carl Schurz)

"If disciples feel emptiness and lack of meaning in their lives, let them contemplate the starry sky one evening, and the grandeur of this sight will fill them with courage." (Peter Deunov)

"In the language of symbolism stars have many meanings, but they primarily relate ‘to the struggle of spirit against the forces of darkness’. (J.E. Cirlot, A Dictionary of Symbols)

"Take time to dream - it is hitching your wagon to a star." (Old Irish Prayer excerpt)

"You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?" (Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra)

Also see:-

Major Arcana

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