The Star upright
The Star kneels naked between water and earth, pouring two pitchers - one onto the land, one into the lake.
After the Tower's destruction, the Star is the first quiet morning. Not joy yet - but the conditions for joy.
Hope, healing, the courage to be hopeful when it would be safer to be cynical.
The Star reversed
Reversed, hope has dimmed - disappointment that's hardened into pessimism.
The water is still pouring; you've just stopped noticing.
Keywords
- hope
- renewal
- healing
- serenity
- guidance
Where this reading comes from
Meaning paraphrased from A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), which is in the public domain - reworded rather than reproduced.
Common questions
- What does The Star mean?
- Hope returning, the still pool after the storm. The Star kneels naked between water and earth, pouring two pitchers - one onto the land, one into the lake.
- What does The Star mean reversed?
- Reversed, hope has dimmed - disappointment that's hardened into pessimism.
- Is The Star a good card to draw?
- The Star is one of the twenty-two Major Arcana, which mark structural turns rather than day-to-day detail. Tarot convention treats no card as simply good or bad - the reading depends on the question and the position it falls in.
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