The Star: Hope and Generosity

 The visualization of the Star card is as you might imagine, contains many stars.  The image depicts a person kneeling, with one foot in water.  This is interpreted as causing your own emotional troubles. reading tarot cards, several small stars dot the upper half of this card.  There is one large star, outshining the smaller stars in the top middle of the picture.

When reading tarot cards, the Star is a highly emotional card.  Two urns surround you in the graphic depiction of the card, one on either side of you.  This symbolizes a balance issue.  You are naked in the depiction, thus indicating your vulnerability.  You are very intelligent and very bright, as illustrated by the bright shining star overhead, but you sometimes let emotions control your destiny as opposed to using your intelligence.  However, all the smaller stars indicate hope of enlightenment and spirituality.  Reading tarot cards, the Star card offers a guiding light and sign of hope, and helps turn you in the right direction of a bright, new future.

The Star, when reading tarot cards, can also mean you are a generous person, wanting always to give and share.  You easily open your heart and let love flow freely.  Sometimes you are hurt by this and need to regain inspiration and motivation.  The Star card will remind you to count your blessings and will ask you to open your eyes so that you may see a light at the end of a tunnel.  You can look forward to a future of great success if you focus your mind, on finding the center of your being and being emotionally calm and relaxed.

When reading tarot cards, as in looking overhead at night up to the stars, there has always been a twinkling magic associated with the stars.  The Star card is no exception as it suggests hope, enlightenment, spirituality, and inspiration.  Especially if it is following periods of profound grief and despair, if reading tarot cards and the Star card shows up, it can be one of the most welcoming cards to receive.  It can give us renewed hope and help us have renewed faith.

Opposing cards, when reading tarot cards, to the Star are Devil (hopelessness and lack of faith), Tower (chaos, turmoil), Moon (troubled, full of anxiety), the Two of Swords (feelings blocked), and the Nine of Swords (guilt, blame).

Cards in support of the Star, when reading tarot cards, include the Fool (faith, innocence, trust), the Empress (full of love, generosity), the Six of Cups (culture of sharing and good will), and the Ten of Cups (feeling blessed and joyous).