Thoth Tarot · Major Arcana
The Star
hope · inspiration · healing · openness · trust
A reflective starting point
What is The Star asking you to look at?
Meaning changes with the position, the surrounding cards and your question. Take what follows as a language, not a verdict.
Upright
Well-founded hope and inspiration: the direction is right. A time of healing, renewal and trust.
At first sight
Hope, renewal, inspiration. It points to healing after a crisis, trust in the future and unexpected help.
Within you
The ability to reconnect with a wider vision; the trust that is born from having crossed the dark.
On the path
Path 28 from Netzach to Yesod, the letter He (the window, 5) and Aquarius, fixed air: the window from which infinity can be glimpsed. Nuit pours out the waters of life and reminds us that every man and every woman is a star.
The shadow
Ill-dignified, it signals illusion, disappointment, sterile idealism, hopes that have no roots.
Reversed
In the Thoth tradition a reversed card is read through its dignity with the neighbouring cards; this is its shadow side.
Trust lost, vision clouded; you need to find your way back to your most authentic ideals.
In love, work and spirit
Love. Sincere love, openness and mutual trust; the healing of emotional wounds.
Work. Inspiration, creativity, long-term vision; future-oriented projects.
Spirit. Recognising yourself as a star: divine individuality in an infinite cosmos.
Correspondences
He ה · path 28 (Netzach – Yesod) · Air · Aquarius
Crowley's note
Following the correction 'Tzaddi is not the Star', Crowley assigns the letter He to the Star; the figure is Nuit pouring water from two cups, one of gold and one of silver, beneath the seven-pointed star of Babalon.
From the journal
Thoth Tarot
Thoth Tarot
Thoth Tarot