The Star is very distant and mysterious. Although the sky on the Tarot Star card image is light blue, the Star is a nocturnal being. Its shimmering light inspires contemplation and dreaming. It’s emotion is melancholia. You need to pause and ponder what existence is all about… Don’t expect the Tarot Star card to answer questions. Instead, it raises new ones — or old ones that you’ve forgotten because you were so occupied with worldly matters, ambitious plans, and what-not. Who doesn’t become somber and thoughtful when watching the stars in the night sky? All the things that mattered so much seem to lose importance and attraction… The Tarot Star is about emotions, which is indicated by all the water on the card image, poured serenely by the woman. The element water represents the emotional. But these feelings lead to stillness, and the stillness leads to thoughts… What moves through our heads when we are at rest, not involved in all those things that make a lifetime pass so swiftly? That’s what the Tarot Star card urges us to explore. If we never do, it’s like we never lived… If the Tarot Star card represents a person, it’s someone who inspires reflection, making you ponder where you are in life and where you really want to go… If the Tarot Star card represents an event, it’s a moment when things halt so that you have time to reconsider, which you should do. Goals are questioned… If the Tarot Star card has a position in the divination spread referring to you, then you are caught in a serenity that some would call a coma. You halt to reconsider just about everything. That is refreshing and sometimes absolutely necessary. But don’t get stuck in it. You still have a life to live. It’s a vacation, not a vocation…
First Appearance Ducal courts of northern Italy (c. 1440)
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Appearance List Sola Busca (1490s) — earliest surviving deck [Open Culture] [WaiteSmith.org]; Monde primitif… (Vol. 8: “Du Jeu des Tarots”) (1781) by Antoine Court de Gébelin; Manière de se récréer avec le jeu de cartes nommées Tarots (1783–1785) by Etteilla (Jean-Baptiste Alliette); Dogme et rituel de la haute magie (1856) by Éliphas Lévi; The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use in Fortune-Telling, and Method of Play (1888) by S. L. MacGregor Mathers; Le Tarot des Bohémiens (1889) by Papus (Gérard Encausse); Rider Waite Tarot (1909) by A. E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith [WaiteSmith.org]; The Tarot of the Bohemians (1910) by A. P Morton [Internet Archive]; The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911, 1959) by A. E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith; Le tarot des imagiers du moyen âge (1926) by Oswald Wirth; The Book of Thoth: A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians (1944) by Aleister Crowley; Le Tarot de Marseille (1949) by Paul Marteau; The Tarot Revealed (1960) by Eden Gray; Tarot Cards for Fun and Fortune Telling (1970) by Stuart R. Kaplan; The Encyclopedia of Tarot (Vol. 1) (1978) by Stuart R. Kaplan.
Sample Read The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911, 1959) by A. E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith [Internet Archive]
Description The Star is very distant and mysterious. Although the sky on the Tarot Star card image is light blue, the Star is a nocturnal being. Its shimmering light inspires contemplation and dreaming. It’s emotion is melancholia. You need to pause and ponder what existence is all about… Don’t expect the Tarot Star card to answer questions. Instead, it raises new ones — or old ones that you’ve forgotten because you were so occupied with worldly matters, ambitious plans, and what-not. Who doesn’t become somber and thoughtful when watching the stars in the night sky? All the things that mattered so much seem to lose importance and attraction… The Tarot Star is about emotions, which is indicated by all the water on the card image, poured serenely by the woman. The element water represents the emotional. But these feelings lead to stillness, and the stillness leads to thoughts… What moves through our heads when we are at rest, not involved in all those things that make a lifetime pass so swiftly? That’s what the Tarot Star card urges us to explore. If we never do, it’s like we never lived… If the Tarot Star card represents a person, it’s someone who inspires reflection, making you ponder where you are in life and where you really want to go… If the Tarot Star card represents an event, it’s a moment when things halt so that you have time to reconsider, which you should do. Goals are questioned… If the Tarot Star card has a position in the divination spread referring to you, then you are caught in a serenity that some would call a coma. You halt to reconsider just about everything. That is refreshing and sometimes absolutely necessary. But don’t get stuck in it. You still have a life to live. It’s a vacation, not a vocation…
