Tarot card meanings · Major Arcana 17
What does The Star mean in tarot?
In A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the Star upright means “privation, abandonment”, and reversed “Arrogance, haughtiness, impotence”.
Upright
Privation, abandonment.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
Reversed
Arrogance, haughtiness, impotence.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 3
What does the picture show?
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.Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Part 2
Where does the Star fall in a reading?
The Star belongs to the Major Arcana. On this site you draw three cards, which take three of the places in the ten-card method Waite describes: “This covers him”, “This crosses him”, “This is before him”. The same card reads differently in each place, and the I Ching cast beside it may agree or disagree.
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Draw three cardsWaite's words are quoted as printed, and left out where they speak of money, law, illness or disaster. The pictures are the 1909 deck drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. For entertainment and self-reflection.