The Star Tarot Card Meanings
The Star’s Upright & Reversed Meanings
Ideas: Discovery, low expectations, measures
Traits: Active, clear-headed, conservative, rational, realistic, responsible
Emotions: Disappointment, enthusiasm, frustration, hopelessness, insecurity, uneasiness
- Actions:
- Acting on your aspiration
- Finding out what you want
- Having low expectations
- Keeping your energy to yourself
- Taking responsibility
- Walking the walk
Ideas: Certainty, faith, healing, openness
Traits: Appreciative, benevolent, caring, confident, cooperative, generous, peaceful
Emotions: Contentment, hope, longing, optimism, satisfaction
- Actions:
- Adopting a generous spirit
- Believing good things happen to good people
- Embracing possibility over probability
- Hoping for the best
- Nourishing and healing yourself
- Seeing events in the best possible light
- Seeking guidance from above
- Taking time to restore vitality
Ideas: Excuses, high expectations, mirage
Traits: Absent-minded, casual, forgetful, idealistic, impractical, irresponsible, passive, unrealistic
Emotions: Desire, enjoyment, pity, pleasure, pride, sympathy
- Actions:
- Denying personal accountability
- Having high expectations
- Making excuses
- Overprotecting yourself or others
- Preferring illusion to reality
- Talking the talk
The Star’s Advice
Personal Growth
An optimist sees what is … and what can be. Open yourself to possibility. Numbers never tell the whole story. Shed your ego; be yourself, no matter what others think. The only truly unique thing you have to share is the person you really are. Unmask!
Relationship
Give freely of yourself and expect the best. Don’t hold back genuine emotions; express them without shame. Consider exploring spiritual goals together. Astrology can offer important insights into compatibility. Let your honesty and openness encourage others to reveal their deepest thoughts.
Career
Surround yourself with visual reminders of your goal because these can serve as guiding lights when you need a way to put the situation into perspective. Expect the best of yourself and your co-workers. You’ll know when the time is right to take action; have confidence in your own judgment.
Spirituality
Prayer and quiet time communicate your openness to guidance from above. Don’t hesitate to share your spiritual side with those around you. Seek out oracles. Allow the power of spirit to flow through you; let your spirituality color all aspects of your life.
The Star’s Symbols & Insights
The Seven Stars
The seven stars seen on both the Rider–Waite–Smith and Marseilles cards likely refer to the seven classical planets. They orbit a central flamboyant star, which Waite, in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, describes as a Masonic symbol. In your situation, who is following whom—and why?
Eight-Pointed Stars
Depending on the deck used, the number eight suggests the work associated with expressions of strength or the delivery of justice. Eight, the number of action, doubles four, the number of persistence and stability. Might the key to your situation be the application of consistent effort over time?
Pouring Water
There’s no conservation going on here; the figure on most Star cards bears an inexhaustible supply of the Water of Life. What are your own inexhaustible resources? How can they help?
Nudity
Here, nudity communicates innocence, openness, and shamelessness. What would happen if you embraced yourself completely?
The Ibis
The ibis is the representative of Thoth, the master magician of the Egyptians. It is associated with the idea of both initiation and meditation. In your situation, who is the magician, and who is the mediator?
More About The Star Tarot Card
- Prediction
- Get an astrology chart drawn up.
- Someone is a little too starstruck.
- What’s happening now has long been foreordained.
- Timing
- Between January 20 and February 17
- Archetype
- The heavenly guide
- Hebrew Alphabet
- Tzaddi/Fishhook/90 or, in some decks, He[as]/Window/5
- Numerology Number
- 17 = 1 + 7 = 8
(the action: movement, outer work, swiftness) - Classical Element
- Air
- Astrological Sign
- Aquarius
- Myth/Spirit
- The star that guided the Magi
- Aphrodite
- Venus
- The Pleiades
- Moses bringing forth water from the rock
- Story Character
- After the darkness, comes the dawn! Just as the situation looks completely bleak, the main character discovers a way to move forward.
- Questions to Ask
- What would my higher power direct me to do?
- How can I be less self-conscious and guarded?
- How can I better attune myself to the abundance of life’s blessings?
