The Star

Upright

Everything

After the storm, a clear night and a bright star. Hope, calm, and faith that things mend.

Love

Renewed trust. A gentle, open-hearted time, good for reconciling or beginning softly.

Work

Inspiration returns. Creative work flows; a good name spreads quietly.

Money

Recovery after strain. Not sudden riches, but the water is flowing again.

Myself

Peace of mind, and belief in yourself coming back. You are enough.

Loss, theft, privation, abandonment; another reading says—hope and bright prospects,The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 284

Reversed

Everything

Hope dimmed, faith shaken. The star is still there; the clouds are the problem.

Love

Disappointment, or holding back your heart after a hurt. Be patient with yourself.

Work

Creative drought, or feeling your effort goes unseen. Keep the small practice going.

Money

Slow recovery, or a hope of quick gain that fades. Steady beats spectacular.

Myself

Self-doubt in the dark. Look up; the sky has not changed.

Arrogance, haughtiness, impotence.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 284

The card, as Waite described it

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. Behind her is rising ground and on the right a shrub or tree, whereon a bird alights. The figure expresses eternal youth and beauty. The star is l'étoile flamboyante, which appears in Masonic symbolism, but has been confused therein. That which the figure communicates to the living scene is the substance of the heavens and the elements. It has been said truly that the mottoes of this card are "Waters of Life freely" and "Gifts of the Spirit." The summary of several tawdry explanations says that it is a card of hope. On other planes it has been certified as immortality and interior light. For the majority of prepared minds, the figure will appear as the type of Truth unveiled, glorious in undying beauty, pouring on the waters of the soul some part and measure of her priceless possession. But she is in reality the Great Mother in the Kabalistic Sephira Binah, which is supernal Understanding, who communicates to the Sephiroth that are below in the measure that they can receive her influx.The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), p. 136

The plain-word meanings on this page were written for ShreeJyoti and are still under review.