The Star card

The answer lies in hope.

Supporting / Blocking Tarot Card

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It is both a supportive and a delaying card. It is supportive because, in the context of the question, the querent can reach a new and positive place, but they must arrive at this new place clean and pure, as they were in their childhood. Without the scars created during life. The delay may stem from the querent’s difficulty in accessing those painful places and energetically cleansing themselves from them.

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The Meaning of The Card

The Star card represents purity, sincerity, honesty, and innocence. The challenges that the person has faced have served as a creative, building force. This card represents the person’s belief in their ability to restore their life. In this card, the master looks inward, recognizing their self-worth, and valuing what they have. In the previous two cards, The Devil and The Tower, the person shed their habits, their material life, and confronted their dark traits to reach The Star card—naked, without masks, clean and pure. Just like the maiden in The Star card, the Fool is also at the peak of a mountain, embarking on an enthusiastic and optimistic journey but without life experience. The hermit on the mountain peak is isolated, seeking the truth. The maiden is also on a mountain peak, but the mountain is in bloom.

The Star card: The Meaning of The Symbols

Card Symbols	Symbol Meaning
Yellow Star	Stability, abundance, renewal, protection.
7 White Stars	The seven white stars symbolize protection, guidance, and the number eight symbolizes the connection to infinity. They represent realization, inspiration, self-esteem, and purity.
Light Blue Background	The clear sky represents clear thinking, spirituality, infinite possibilities, and eternity.
Tree	Food, shelter, protection, connection to the earth. Roots – physical, trunk – emotional, branches – spirituality, abundance, growth.
Mountain	The mountain in the background symbolizes the challenges a person must overcome to reach the Fountain of Youth. It also represents challenges, power, mystery, and obstacles.
Ibis	Magic, wisdom, knowledge.
Naked Woman	The naked woman symbolizes the human soul without material possessions, in a state of purity and cleanliness. Nudity represents the courage to expose oneself from a place of self-confidence and trust, as well as a natural attitude towards the body and its sexuality as part of nature. She symbolizes feminine power, emotion, innocence, purity, and inner wholeness.
Two Water Jugs	The jugs symbolize the ability to contain and give.
Stream	The stream branching into five smaller streams represents the flow towards the goal and purpose through the five senses and the five energies within a person—creative, emotional, intuitive, mental, and spiritual. Contraction, calm, security, emotion, the feminine element.
Meadow	Abundance, fertility, and prosperity.
Kneeling Position, Foot Placement	Submission, humility. The foot in the water is connected to emotion, and the one on the ground maintains stability. One foot in the water and one on the ground symbolize the bridge between emotion, spirit, and the physical world.
Hands	In her right hand, the woman pours water from the jug into the pool, symbolizing personal awareness merging with cosmic awareness. In her left hand, she pours water from the jug onto the dry ground, which has suffered from a crisis. The water will allow sprouting, and the watering symbolizes fertility.

Mythology

The card is represented by the story of Pandora. She was the first woman created by Zeus as part of the punishment for humanity for stealing the secret of fire. She received attributes from various gods: Hephaestus gave her her form, Venus gave her beauty, Apollo gave her musical talent and the ability to heal, and Hermes gave her a box and instructed her never to open it, thus bestowing upon her curiosity. One day, Pandora’s curiosity overcame her, and she opened the box, releasing all the disasters and pain into the world. Pandora was terrified and quickly closed the box, but after closing it, she heard knocking and a gentle voice calling her, asking her to open the box. After a while, Pandora could not resist the pleas coming from the box, and when she opened it again, she released hope into the world.

Representation of the Card in a Reading

The card represents the stage where the master discovers the Fountain of Youth, a place simple and clear, free of complications, where purity, innocence, joy, and hope exist. It is an important source of energy that allows a person to renew and purify themselves. The fountain returns the person to their innate ability before it was lost through maturation—the ability to be who they truly are without interference from past memories or fears. This source of energy is called love. When a person is hurt, they close off and bury their pain and suffering, but along with them, hope is buried as well. This is a stage in the journey where the walls built in their life to protect themselves from pain and difficulties are removed. The master frees themselves from the barriers that block them in order to confront the very pains and challenges that originally led to the construction of these walls. Therefore, to remove these barriers, they must open their personal Pandora’s box, and only then can they reconnect with the energy of love. The card represents the positive forces within a person. It is a card of hope, optimism, love, happiness, and success. A card of innocence, honesty, and purity. The querent hides nothing and has nothing to hide. Their life is clean and simple. ‘Between the dark and the hidden, in our bitter world, it is said that there is still hope, and it is called love, and we wait for its arrival.’ — Arkadi Duchin The term ‘Pandora’s box’ has become a metaphor for revealing unpleasant things, troubles, complex issues, etc., which it is better to remain silent about and not open the box. In this card, it is essential to open the box in order to develop.

It’s important to remember that this is a Major Arcana card, representing the realm of spirit. The querent’s soul is in the place of The Star, and whether it is searching for the Fountain of Youth or has already found it, in order to manifest the card in the material world, the soul must undergo a journey of confronting everything in its personal Pandora’s box.