XVII. The Star

Keywords:
~ hope
~ serenity
~ balance
~ a light at the end of the tunnel
~ harmony
~ deep understanding
~ faith

Reversed:
~ lack of hope
~ despair
~ longing
~ refusing to let go
~ fear of the change
~ lost

There is a shining hope inside of you.  Let you inner Star out to shine for yourself and others.  The Star works in harmony and serenity with everything around her.  While you are out under the night sky soaking in the energy of The Moon, let your awareness expand to encompass the whole vista of stars in the sky as well. Can you feel the energy of the stars so far away?  Can you compare your small self to the vastness of the Universe and put your problems and issues in perspective?  The Star invites you to be hopeful and content that you can bring balance and harmony into your emotional patterns.

The Star is a wonderful card of hope, belief, tranquility, harmony, and faith in yourself and others.  The Star shines a beautiful light onto your life, one of magic, possibility and opportunity.  It comes after The Tower in the Major Arcana,  a card which represents a time of break down, of structural crumbling, and of swift and sudden change.  When The Star shows up in a reading reversed, it can mean that the energy of The Tower still lingers.  Perhaps there are pieces of your foundation that you are clinging to that really you need to let go of with the rest of the structure that was broken.  The Tower can be difficult to face, and sometimes it takes a while to recover and move on, to see the bright light of The Star shining through to lead you on to your next adventure, in order to form a more solid and firm foundation.

The Star reversed feels big, far from a minor blip in your life experience.  Shake up your daily practices, set new goals for your career and life purpose, and start building a new foundation for yourself, one that better aligns with your day to day existence.

So how do you reach for The Star and find new hope and build new structure in my life? Step one, get a tarot reading, of course!  We all need objective outsiders, like a professional tarot reader, to give us perspective and help us move forward at times.